Grosvenor Prints

George Cruikshank, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Work Executed during the Years 1806-1877 with Collations, Notes, Approximate Values, Facsimiles, and Illustrations.
by Albert M. Cohn Author of A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Printed Works Illustrated by George Cruikshank, etc.
London From the Office of "The Bookman's Journal" 7 Henrietta Street, Strand, W.C.2 1924
Book: 4to (293 x 231mm). pp. vii-xvi + 375. With 31 b/w and colour illustrations, some on coloured paper. Cloth binding with gilt title on spine. Binding worn and rubbed. One coloured illustration loose.
This Edition is limited to 500 numbered copies. This is No. 416. A catalogue of Cruikshanks work between 1806-1877, with illustrations. There is a self-portrait of Cruikshank in the title page area.
[Ref: 10066] £450.00

Currier & Ives: A Manuel for Collectors.
By Jane Cooper Bland.
Publsihed by Double Day, Doran and Company, Inc. Garden City, New York. 1931.
Book. 4to (230 x 300mm). Cloth binding. Title stamped on binding. pp.v + 349. 16 coloured and 14 b/w illustrations.
An alphabetical catalogue of the prints (including auction prices) published by American publishers and lithographers Nathaniel Currier (1813-1888), Charles Currier (1818-1887) and James Merrit Ives (1824-1895).
Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36437] £65.00

Currier & Ives. Printmakers to the American People.
Harry T. Peters.
Published by Doubleday, Doran & Co. Inc. garden City, New York. MCMXLII.
Book 4to (230 x 310mm). pp. vii-xvi + 192. Cloth binding. Gilt title stamped on spine. Printed title and illustration glued to front, stamped decoration. Profusely illustrated in colour and b/w.
Illustrated narrative describing the lithographic works of Nathaniel Currier (1813-1888) and James Merrit Ives (1824-1895) American "Publishers of Cheap and Popular Prints".
Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36424] £45.00

Mr. Currier and Mr. Ives: A Note on Their Lives and Times.
Russel Crouse.
Published by Garden City Publishing Company, Inc. Garden City MCMXXXVI New York.
Book: 4to (230 x 300mm). Cloth binding with title stamped on spine and front cover. pp. 135. 32 illustrations in colour and b/w.
An illustrated narrative dicsussing the lithographic works of American printers Nathaniel Currier (1813-1888) and James Merrit Ives (1824-1895).
Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36423] £45.00

Daumier
by Jacques Lassaigne. Translated from the French by Eveline Byam Shaw.
William Heinemann Ltd. London. Toronto. [n.d. c.1910].
Book: 4to (322 x 242mm). pp. 168 pages including b/w illustrations throughout. First English Edition. Cloth binding with title in gilt stamped onto front cover and spine. . Complete with dustjacket. Dustjacket dirty and slightly torn. Binding worn.
An illustrated catalogue of the works of Honoré Daumier (1808-79), with some narrative on his life and achievements; the critique; description of the plates and the reproductions; and his influence today.
[Ref: 10458] £80.00

Life, Times and Recorded Works of Robert Dighton (1752-1814) Actor, Artist and Printseller and Three of his Artist Sons. Portrayers of Georgian Pageantry and Wit.
By Dennis Rose.
London: Dennis Rose, 1981.
4to, blue buckram gilt with d/w; pp. 95, profusely illustrated, with some colour plates. Rare. Top of d/w chipped, owner's blindstamp on endpaper.
[Ref: 59739] £70.00

French Etching from Meryon to Lepère, being a lecture delivered to the Print Collector's Club by Campbell Dodgson, C.B.E., Hon. R.E., on June 21st. 1922.
Publication No. 2 Published by the Print Collectors' Club, 5A, Pall Mall East, S.W.1. [1922.]
Book: 8vo (244 x 184mm). Illustrated, 27 pages. Board binding with cloth spine. Scuffing and creasing to binding.
An illustrated narrative examing a small selection of the French school of engraving and etching.
[Ref: 10325] £60.00

Drawing & Engraving. A Brief Exposition of Technical Principles & Practice. With Numerous Illustrations Selected of Commissioned by the Author.
By Philip Gilbert Hamerton. Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers; Honorary Member of the Burlington Fine Arts Club Author of 'Etching and Etchers,' 'The Graphic Arts' Etc. Etc. Etc.
London and Edinburgh. Adam and Charles Black 1892.
8vo (230 x 172mm. 9 x 6¾"), in grey-green cloth binding with title printed in gilt on cover and spine. Some scuffing to cover.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1834-1894), the English artist, art critic and author was involved in the ninth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica published between 1875 and 1889. Shortly after he decided to create this sole volume focusing on the art of drawing and engraving. There are ten chapters on drawing with chapters on 'drawing in the middle ages', 'linear drawing in ancient greek', 'landscape design', and 'drawing for photographic processes'; there then follow a further eight chapters on engraving with chapters on 'principal varieties of engraving', 'etching', 'mezzotint', and 'photographic processes of engraving'.
[Ref: 22082] £65.00

A Catalogue Raisonné of The Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters; In which is included a short Biographical Notice of the Artists, with a copious description of Their Principal Pictures; A Statement of the Prices at which such pictures have been sold at public sales on the Continent and in England; A Reference to the Galleries and Private Collections, in which a large portion are at present; and the names of the Artists by whom the they have been Engraved; To which is added, A Brief Notice of the Scholars & Imitators of the Great Masters of the Above Schools:
By John Smith, Dealer in Pictures. Part the Fourth.
London: Published by Smith and Son, 137, New Bond Street. MDCCCXXXIII [1833].
Small 4to (260 x 171mm. 10¼ x 6¾".), red cloth covers with title on paper stuck on spine. Covers slighty torn with staining and scuffing.
The fourth volume of the 'Catalogue Raisonné of The Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters', this particular volume covers the following artists: Jan Steen; Gabriel Metsu; Gerard Terburg; Gaspar Netscher; Eglon Hendrick Vander Neer; Adrian Vander Werf; Peter de Hooghe; Nicholas Maes; Gonzales Cocques; and Godfrey Schalcken.
[Ref: 22111] £60.00

Dutch Etchers of the Seventeenth Century
by Laurence Binyon Of the Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum
London, Seeley & Co. Limited. 38 Great Russell Street. 1905. Re-issue of the edition of 1895.
Book: 4to (269 x 180mm). Original cloth binding. 4 b/w printed plates, 29 b/w illustrations. Binding a little scratched and rubbed. Part of the spine label has peeled off. No page numbers.
An illustrated and annotated anthology of Dutch seventeenth-century etchers.
[Ref: 10119] £45.00

Dutch Landscape Prints of the Seventeenth Century. British Museum Prints and Drawings Series.
David Freedberg.
A Colonnade Book. Published by British Museum Publications Limited. 1980 David Freedberg.
8vo (254 x 196mm. 10 x 7¾"), green cloth gilt with d/w. Dustjacket rubbed and scuffed.
In this illustrated book, David Freedberg discusses a wide range of Dutch landscape prints, and assesses their artistic and historical significance, describes their technique, and outlines the literary and historical background to their origins and development. He highlights the relation between realism and fantasty in the prints.
[Ref: 22086] £60.00

Early English Drawings from the Ashmolean Museum.
Catalogue compiled by David Blayney Brown.
Morton Morris & Company in association with the Ashmolean Museum Oxford. [1983.]
8vo, illustrated soft covers; pp. 19, with 45 b/w plates.
An catalogue published to accompany an exhibition of Early English drawings from the Ashmolean Museum collection, held in London in 1983.
[Ref: 59945] £15.00

Some English Books with Coloured Plates. Their Points Collations & Values. Art Sport Caricature Topography & Travel. First Half of the Nineteenth Century.
by R.V. Tooley.
London. Ingpen & Grant. 1935.
Book: 4to (249 x 194mm). pp. 288. Cloth binding with gilt title stamped on the spine. Top edge gilt Binding worn and with some staining.
A comprehensive listing and catalogue of English book with coloured plates. Arranged alphabetically through with cross references.
[Ref: 10251] £160.00

English Coloured Books
by Martin Hardie.
Methuen and Co. 36 Essex Street London. First Published in 1906.
Book: thick 4to (254 x 176mm). pp vii-xxiv + 340. 26 b/w and colour illustrations. Cloth binding with patterning and title stamped on frontcover and spine in gilt. Top gilt edge. Binding worn, dirty and torn along the spinal area.
An illustrated and comprehensive study of colour illustrations in books. It starts with two chapters on the medieval origins of colour printing and on the methods of book illsutration from 1500 to 1800. These are followed by 22 detailed chapters on individuals, publishers and the development and improvement of special methods and techniques through to the early twentieth century. A final chapter deals with collecting.
[Ref: 10246] £90.00

English Mezzotint Portraits and their states from the Invention of Mezzotinting until the early part of the 19th Century. Volume One.
By Charles E. Russell.
1926. London: Halton & Truscott Smith, Ltd. New York: Minton, Balch & Company. (Printed in Great Britain).
Large folio format of sixty-four mezzotint portraits with explanatory text. Brown leather and gilt title on spine, vellum covered boards. This edition is limited to Six Hundred and Twenty-Five Copies of which this is Number 202. Paint streaks on cover, spine torn and coming away; lacking volume two (text)
Corrections to Chaloner Smith of mezzotint portraits after Gainsborough, Reynolds, Romney, Hoppner and other known artists.
[Ref: 21974] £250.00

English Mezzotint Portraits and their States. Catalogue of Corrections of and Additions to Chaloner Smith's ''British Mezzotinto Portraits.'' Volume Two.
By Charles E. Russell.
1926. London: Halton & Truscott Smith, Ltd. New York: Minton, Balch & Company. (Printed in Great Britain).
One volume only. 4to, orignal half morocco gilt, top edge gilt; pp. ix + 525.
An update to the most important reference book on English mezzotint portraits.
[Ref: 59771] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

English Mezzotints from the Lennox-Boyd Collection.
C.G. Boerner. [2002.]
4to, illustrated soft covers; pp. 185, profusely illustrated.
An exhibition catalogue published to accompany the exhibition 'English Mezzotint from the Lennox-Boyd Collection' held at C.G. Boerner Inc., New York, 19th February - 15th March 2002.
[Ref: 59933] £45.00

The English Print, 1688-1802.
by Timothy Clayton.
Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1997.
Book. 4to, blue cloth cover, gilt title stamped on spine, with dust cover. Mint.
One of the finest reference books on eighteenth century English prints. Clayton examines the world in which the printseller lived and worked, describing the structure of the print trade and processes of publication as well as examining the history of separately published prints. Tim Clayton read English at Cambridge and, after several years working for the print collector Christopher Lennox-Boyd, won a research fellowship at Worcester College, Oxford. He has written several award winning books and his latest 'Waterloo: Four Days that Changed Europe's Destiny' (2014) has been widely acclaimed as the best book on the subject. Most recently he co-curated 'Bonaparte and the British- prints and propaganda in the age of Napoleon' at the British Museum.
[Ref: 55707] £160.00

English Prints for the Collector.
Stephen Calloway.
Lutterworth Press. Guilford and London. The Overlook Press. Woodstock, New York. First published in Great Britain in 1980.
Book: 4to (285 x 212mm). Cloth binding with gilt title stamped along spine. 232 pages inclusive of illustrations. Complete with dustjacket. Binding and dustjacket: rubbed and scuffed.
An illustrated comprehensive guide to English prints.
[Ref: 10460] £50.00

English Publishers in the Graphic Arts 1599-1700. A Study of the Printsellers and Publishers of Engravings, Art & Architectural Manuals, Maps and Copy-Books.
By Leona Rostenberg.
New York: Burt Frankin, 1963.
4to, cloth gilt & printed d/w. pp. xi + 128, half-tone frontispiece and 40 plates. d/w worn & stained, ex-libris, with ink stamps and blind stamp.
Including Sudbury & Humble, Stent, Jenner, Walton & Overton.
[Ref: 59738] £45.00

The English School of Painting.
By Ernest Chesneau. Translated by Lucy N. Etherington. With preface by Proffessor Ruskin.
Cassell & Company, Limited: London, paris, new York & Melbourne. 1885.
8vo, orginal cloth gilt; pp. vii-xliii + 339, profusely illustrated with b/w images. Second Edition. Ex Libris Franci et Georgii Todhunter. Binding and cover worn. Some time staining on the edges of pages.
Divided into two parts The Old Masters and The Modern School 1850-1882.
[Ref: 59911] £10.00

English Sporting Prints with 95 Colour Plates.
F.L. Wilder.
Thames and Hudson Ltd. London 1974.
Book: 4to (330 x 235mm). pp. 224. Profusely illustrated with colour images. Cloth binding with beautiful guilt stamp of two dolphins on front cover. Dust jacket is a frayed around the edges.
A collection of 95 coloured plates of various English sports with narrative and description.
[Ref: 10095] £65.00

Catalogue of a Collection of Engraved Portraits, the Largest ever submitted to the Public; compromising nearly twenty thousand portraits of persons connected with the History and Literature of this Country, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. with an Enumeration of the Circumstances connecting the eminent persons with the various counties of Great Britain, preferments of the Clergy, &c. Alphabetically arranged with the names of the painter and engraver, and the size of each plate. "Let a man read a character in Clarendon, and he will find it improved by seeing the Portrait of the Person." J. Richardson.
Now on Sale at the Reasonable Price affixed to each Print by Edward Evans, Book and Print Seller, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. [n.d. c.1836-1853]
Book: 4to (216 x 132mm). pp. 396. Morocco leather spine with board covers. Spine leather pulling away, binding worn and torn.
A catalogue and listing of engraved British portraits.
[Ref: 59949] £120.00

A Catalogue of Engravers, Who have been born, or resided in England; To which is added An Account of the Life and Works of the latter. And Art reflected Images to Art. ------ Pope.
Digested by Mr. Horace Walpole From the Mss. of Mr. George Vertue;
Strawberry-Hill : Printed in the Year MDCCLXIII [1763].
Book: 8vo (219 x 173mm). pp. 169. Illustrated with 9 b/w plates. Moroccan leather spine with marble boards. Binding worn and stained.
An illustrated catalogue.
[Ref: 10208] £350.00 view all images for this item

Catalogue of a Collection of Engravings, Etchings, and Woodcuts.
1879.
4to, orginal cloth gilt; pp. 352, profusely illustrated. Distressed binding.
An account of the history and work of different school of engravings: Italian, German, Spanish, French, English, and Flemish and Dutch.
[Ref: 59936] £95.00

The Old Engravers of England in their relation to Contemporary Life and Art (1540-1800). with Forty-Eight Illustrations.
by Malcolm C. Salaman. Author of "Woman - Through a Man's Eyeglass," etc.
Cassell and Company, Limited. London, Paris, New York and Melbourne. MCMVI. [1906].
Book: 8vo (207 x 136mm). Cloth binding with title stamped on front cover and spine in gilt. Binding tired. Some very slight spotting in page edges.
An illustrated chronological narrative of British Engraving.
[Ref: 10218] £25.00

The Wonders of Engraving. Illustrated with thirty-four Wood-engravings, by P. Sellier.
by George Duplessis.
London, Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, Crown Buildings, 188, Fleet Street. [1871].
Book: 8vo (199 x 134mm), maroon cloth stamped in gilt and black, a.e.g.; pp. x + 338, steel and wood-engraved plates and illustrations. Head and foot of spine worn.
An illustrated reference, with chapters broken down by schools of art; the artists prominent in each school, and the techniques and processes adopted by each school.
[Ref: 10221] £60.00

Drawing & Engraving. A Brief Exposition of Technical Principles & Practice. with Numerous Illustrations Selected of Commissioned by the Author.
by Philip Gilbert Hamerton Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Paint-Etchers; Honorary Member of the Burlington Fine Arts Clube. Author of 'Etching and Etchers,' 'The Graphic Arts' etc. etc. etc.
London and Edinburgh. Adam and Charles Black. 1892.
Book: 8vo (223 x 158mm). Cloth binding with gilt title stamped on front cover and spine. Binding worn. Some sporadic spotting.
An illustrated guide to the various genres of drawing and engraving.
[Ref: 10240] £45.00

Drawing & Engraving. A Brief Exposition of Technical Principles & Practice. With Numerous Illustrations Selected or Commissioned by the Author.
by Philip Gilbert Hamerton. Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers; Honorary Member of the Burlington Fine Arts Club; Author of 'Etching and Etchers,' 'The Graphic Arts,' etc. etc. etc.
London and Edinburgh. Adam and Charles Black. 1892.
Book: tall 8vo (222 x 160mm). Cloth binding with gilt title stamped onto frontcover and spine. 172 textual pages plus illustrations. Binding rubbed and scuffed.
An illustrated narrative on drawing and engraving; the developments; methods and techniques; periods in time; and a section that offers further reading material on the subjects.
[Ref: 10454] £45.00

Engravings and Their Value. A Complete Guide to the Collection and Prices of all Classes of Prints.
by J. Herbert Slater, Author of "How to Collect Books," " The Romance of Book Collecting," &c. Sixth Edition, Revised and Enlarged by F.W. Maxwell-Barbour.
This 1978 edition published by Kudos Publications, Kew, Richmond, Surrey. A division of Axon Printers Limited, 4 Mackintosh Lane, London E.9.
book: 4to (273 x 219mm). Cloth binding with gilt title and patterning stamped onto front cover and spine. Binding worn.
An illustrated catalogue to engravings and their values. Chapters outline the various methods of engraving, and the ability to identify forgeries
[Ref: 10355] £45.00

Old French Line Engravings
by Ralph Nevill.
London. Haltona dn Truscott Smith, Ltd. 1924.
Book: large 4to (316 x 249mm). Cloth binding with gilt title stamped onto frontcover and spine. This Edition is Limited to One Thousand, Two Hundred and Fifty Copies of which this is No. 24. Binding worn and scuffed.
An illustrated catalogue of old French line engravings; 86 plates.
[Ref: 10461] £130.00

The Appreciation of Old Engravings and Etchings.
By E.F. Linssen.
London: Herbert Jenkins. [1951.]
Scarce 8vo, orginal cloth gilt; pp. 372, profusely illustrated. Good condition.
An analysis of engravings and etchings and their collecting.
[Ref: 59852] £50.00

Engravings and Their Value : A Guide for the Print Collector Third Edition, Reivised, with an "Appendix."
by J. Herbert Slater, Barrister-at-Law, Editor of "Book Prices Current," Author of "The Library Manual," "Early Editons," "Round and About the Bookstalls," "The Romance of Book-Collecting," &c., &c.
London : L. Upcott Gill, Bazaar Buildings, Drury Lane, W.C. (Formerly of 170, Strand). New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 153-157, Fifth Avenue. [n.d. c.1900]
Book: 8vo (181 x 120mm). Cloth binding with gilt patterning and title on spine and front cover. Binding peeling apart on rear. Some sporadic spotting.
A narrative on engravings: various methods, origins, distinguishing the genuineness, the cleaning and preservation, pricing, technical terms and the forming of a collection.
[Ref: 10203] £45.00

Catalogue of Engraved Portraits, Views, Etc. Connected with the Name of Levis.
H.C. Levis.
Printed for the Author for Private Distribution only at the Chiswick Press, London. 1914. Only Fifty copies printed. Chiswick Press: Charles Whittingham and Co. Tooks Court, Chancery Lane, London.
A very rare item. 8vo (222 x 178mm. 8¾ x 7".), with light-blue board cover and calf spine with lettered title.
A rare limited edition with a letter from the author. Complied by Howard Coppock Levis, this first and only edition of this stunning exercise in scholarly egomania. Hundreds of printed items relating to the Levis family described, many illustrated with full-page plates.
Ex Libris: Gustave Bourcard.
[Ref: 22104] £140.00

The Etcher's Handbook. Giving an Account of the Old Processes, and of Processes recently discovered. Illustrated by the Author. "What, then, is the amount and kind of previous knowledge and skill required by the etcher?...Finally, it is the acumen to perceive the near relationship that expression bears to form, and the skill to draw them - not separately, but together."-Fine Arts Quarterly Review.
By Philip Gilbert Hamerton, Author of "Etching and Etchers."
London: Charles Roberson & Co., 99, Long Acre. 1871. Dryden Press: J. Davy and Sons, 137, Long Acre, London.
8vo. Original cloth covers with gilt lettering.
Twenty-two chapters and five etching and one dry point illustrations on the art and processes of etching, including chapters on dry point, etching from nature, Haden's negative process and Hamerton's negative process. A manual more concerned with the materials than with the grammar of etching, including some of Hamerton's own developments, such as positive white etching ground.
[Ref: 21982] £80.00 view all images for this item

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Etching & Etchers. With etchings by the Author.
by Philip Gilbert Hamerton, Author of the 'Intellectual Life,' etc.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. 1902.
Book: 4to (235 x 158mm), gilt illustrated cloth; pp. xxx + 439, twelve etched plates. Binding worn, back board detached, spine loose, inner hinges strained, with prelims loose.
A very comprehensive and illustrated guide to etchings. One volume divided into five books and an appendix. Book I: Powers and Qualities of the Art. Book II: The Dutch and Other Schools. Book III: The French School. Book IV: The English School. Book V: The Interpreters of Painting, and Copying in Facsimile. Appendix: Practical Notes and Catalogue Index.
[Ref: 10252] £45.00

Etching. Modern Methods of Intaglio Printmaking.
Julian Trevelyan.
First Published in 1963 by Studio Books (Longacre Press Ltd). 161, Fleet Street, London, EC4.
Book: 8vo (238 x 177mm). pp. vi-viii + 96. Profusely illustrated with b/w and colour images. Modern printed and laminated board binding. A few marks.
A clear concise narrative with illustrations on the methods of intaglio printmaking.
[Ref: 10346] £30.00

Etching in England with 50 Illustrations.
by Frederick Wedmore.
London. George Bell and Sons. 1895.
Book: 8vo (231 x 169mm). pp.184. 50 b/w illustrations. Cloth and board binding with patterning and title stamped onto both the spine and frontcover. Binding torn on spine. Some spotting.
An illustrated narrative of the different classes of etching in England, and prominent British etchers.
[Ref: 10347] £65.00

Etching Craft. A Guide for Students and Collectors.
by W.P.Robins, R.E. With a Foreward by Martin Hardie, R.E.
London : from the Office of The Bookman's Journal & Print Collector. 173/5 Fleet Street, E.C.4. 1922.
Book: 8vo (252 x 158mm). pp. vii-xvi + 243. Cloth spine with boards. Gilt title stamped into spine. Binding scuffed and rubbed with a small stain. Binding pulling away from book at spine.
An illustrated volume divided into seven sections. Part I: A Brief Outline of the Development of Etching. Part II: The Practical Side of Etching. Part III: The Great Etchers and Their Work. Part IV: Drypoint, Aquatint and Soft-Ground Etching. Part V: Printing, Mounting, and the Care of Prints. Part VI: Conclusion. Part VII: Bibliography of Works on Etching and Etchers.
[Ref: 10244] £45.00

The Art and Practice of Etching; with Directions for Other Methods of Light and Entertaining Engraving.
By Henry Alken.
London: S. & J. Fuller, 34 & 35, Rathbone Place, Oxford Street. 1849.
8vo. Gilt title on canvas cover, stamped design on covers both sides.
A manual of the art and practice of etching; covering terminology such as: turpentine varnish, biting-in, smoking taper and many other processes and terms. Split into four parts for etching, engraving in soft ground, aqua-tinta etching, and resin-ground etching; images at the back.
Collection: Christopher Dobson.
[Ref: 21980] £120.00

Etching and Other Graphic Arts. An Illustrated Treatise with An Original Etching Frontispiece and Twenty-Six Illustrations
by George T. Plowman
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head. New York: John Lane Company MCMXV.
Book: 8vo (204 x 135mm). Original cloth gilt; pp. 148, with etched frontis. and 26 half-tone and wood-engraved plates. Binding worn.
An illustrated reference to etching. Divided into two parts. Part one: outlines the different techniques of print making. Part two: details the production of etching from the preparation to the reworking.
[Ref: 10421] £25.00

On the Making of Etchings.
by Frank Short.
London. Robert Dunthorne, at the sign of the Rembrandt Head in Vigo Street. W. 1888.
Book: 8vo (212 x 175mm). pp. 34 with 4 b/w plates. Small b/w illustrations throughout. Board binding with cloth spine. Printed title and illustration front and back. Binding worn with some staining. Some spotting across the pages.
An illustrated narrative on the making of etchings. Outlines the methods, techniques and tools required to produce etchings.
[Ref: 10423] £60.00

A History of British and American Etching
by James Laver Assistant in the Department of Engraving Illustration and Design. Victorai & Albert Museum.
Ernest Benn Limited Bouverie House, Fleet Street, London, E.C.4. 1929.
Book: 4to (278 x 217mm). pp. vii-xiv + 363 pages with 84 b/willustrations. Two-tone cloth binding with title in gilt stamped into spine. Binding a little worn around the spine.
An illustrated narrative of the various themes and genres in British and American etching.
[Ref: 10357] £60.00

Etchings of Today
Introduction by W. Gaunt. Edited by Geoffrey Holme.
London: The Studio Limited. 44 Leicester Square, W.C.2. [n.d. c.1920].
Book: 4to (290 x 210mm). Cloth binding covered in a plastic cover. Complete with see-through plastic dust jacket. Dust-jacket torn and dirty.
A small introduction and detail on etchings by specific nations, plus 120 illustrations.
[Ref: 10457] £25.00

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Engraved Works of William Faithorne.
by Louis Fagan.
Bernard Quaritch. 15, Picadilly, W. London. 1888.
Book. 4to (200 x 290mm). pp. v-xiii 104.Very scarce, only 46 Subscribers. Cloth binding, gilt title stamped on spine. Broken back inside.
A catalogue of works by English engraver William Faithorne (1616-1691).
Ex: Collection the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36439] £350.00

Fakes and Frauds. Varieties of Deception in Print & Manuscript.
Edited by Robin Myers and Michael Harris.
Detroit: Omnigraphics Inc., 1989.
8vo, illustrated boards; pp. x + 144, illutrations in text.
A collection of seven articles about fakes in the book trade, including false collophons and imprints, pirates and fake classical texta
[Ref: 59740] £35.00

Illustrated Catalogue of Etchings by Hedley Fitton R.E. With Descriptions.
Robert Dunthorne
The Rembrandt Gallery. 5 Vigo, St. London, and 28 Castle St. Liverpool 1911.
Book: 8vo (212 x 172mm). pp. 36. 37 b/w illustrations. Cloth binding with gilt title stamped on front cover. A gilt stamp with "RL" in the centre, stamped on the reverse. Limited edition 350. Binding scuffed, spine very worn.
An illustrated catalogue of the etchings by Hedley Fitton. Born 1857, Elected Member of the Royal Society of Paint Etchers 1902, amongst other prestigious postings.
[Ref: 10237] £120.00

French Engravers of the Eighteenth Century. Ninety-seven Illustrations with an Introduction by Archibald Younger.
Otto Sculze and Company. 20 South Frederick St., Edinburgh. [n.d. c.1929.]
4to, orginal cloth gilt with illustrated label; pp. xxxiv, with 97 b/w plates.
A concise account of the works of the French engravers of the 18th century.
[Ref: 59941] £35.00

From Manet to Toulouse-Lautrec. French Lithographs 1860-1900.
By Frances Carey and Antony Griffiths.
Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Publications Limited. [1978.]
8vo, colour-illustrated soft covers; pp. 104, with 11 colour and 60 b/w illustrations.
An exhibition catalogue published to accompany an exhibition on French Lithograph 1860-1900 at the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museums, 1978.
[Ref: 59773] £20.00

A Kingdom of Images: French Prints in the Age of Louis XIV, 1660-1715.
Edited by Peter Fuhring, Louis Marchesano, Rémi Mathis, and Vanessa Selbach.
Los Angeles: The Getty Research Institute, 2013.
4to, cloth & illus. d/w; pp. xii + 332, profusely illustrated.
A study of the French print trade in the reign of the Sun King.
[Ref: 59762] £70.00

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