Your search:Books»A short history of engraving & etching, for the use of collectors and students; with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers(9 available copies)
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Original Cloth
Publisher: Houghton and Mifflin, Boston/NY:
Date Published: 1908
Description: Fine. First U.S. Edition. Thick octavo, burgundy red cloth covered boards with gilt title and decoration and gilt spine titles. Top edge gilt. 473pp. Illustrated with 110 black and white plates, reproductions, photographs and line drawings including engraved frontispiece with tissue guard. The classic and definitive work on the history of engraved and etched works on paper. Clean, clear gilt and clean fresh interior with very minor touches of wear. Near fine. read more
Edition: Second Revised Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston
Date Published: 1911
Description: VG/NONE. 110 illustrations, gilt lettering, some very minor corner and spine wear, inner front hinge crack repair, barely noticable. With full bibliography classified list and index of engravers.; Sketches; 473 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Archibald Constable and Company, London, first edition
Date Published: 1908
Description: Covers somewhat flecked, front board seems to have been sanded at lower quarter and re-coloured in nearly-but-not-quite matching blue, perhaps to remove some old dampstaining. Contents near Very Good. Cloth, top edge gilt, 8vo, 24 cm, xviii, 473 pp, 110 ills. From the introduction: "[The book] aims, in the first place, at presenting a descriptive survey of the history of engraving on metal throughout the various centuries and schools, considerable space being devoted to the more important ... read more
Edition: Revised Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Constable and Company Second Revised Edition 1911
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 5¾"-7¾" Tall. A Very Good Copy of this Book in blue cloth with gilt title lettering to the spine, head of spine a touch worn, corners slightly bumped, tight binding profusely illustrated thick 8vo 473pp. read more
Binding: Hardcover.
Publisher: Macmillan, London
Date Published: 1911
Description: Octavo. Blue cloth, spine gilt lettered. pp (xx), 473 + frontispiece with tissue guard; 100 illustrations in text, indexed. Private owner's rubber stamp on front free endpaper; free endpapers tanned from binding; else fine, bright & tight. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, please enquire for shipping rate. read more
Description: 490pp large octavo with guarded photogravure frontispiece and one hundred and ten text illustrations. Containing a full biography, classified list and index of engravers. Original cloth gilt. t.e.g. Slight marking to backstrip, library stamps to rear of title, else fine. read more
Description: 450pp large octavo with text illustrations throughout. Containing a full bibliography, classified list, and index of engravers. Original cloth gilt. Sligh wear to backstrip and hinges, stamps to title, else fine. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: CONSTABLE
Date Published: 1908
Description: Published by CONSTABLE in 1908, 473 pages, hardback (no D/J), medium size, boards worn to edges, hinges cracked internally, endpapers foxed, boards creased and torn to head & tail of spine, book plate on inside front cover, illustrated frontispiece, illustrated in black & white, some ink annotations. Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Edition: F
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Boston / New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1908
Description: Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dustjacket. First Edition. large 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 473 pages. With full bibliography, classified list, and index of engravers. Contains a frontispiece in photogravure and 110 illustrations in the text. Still considered by many to be one of the best source books available on the subject. This is a thick, heavy, well-made book. The book is in red cloth-covered boards with very clean, bright gold lettering on the front and gold lettering on the spine which is only ... read more
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