Etchers and Etching: Chapters in the History of the Art, Together with Technical Explanations of Modern Artistic Methods
New York: MacMillan Company, 1936. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards with red lettering on cover and spine, 343 pp., bw illustrations throughout. VG- (title lettering fading on spine, age toning along textblock, previous owner's inscription abd glue residue on front page, all pages clear and intact). Item #182256
Contents Include: "Of etchings -- Of the making of etchings -- Of the collecting of etchings -- Of the great etchers -- Of Charles Meryon -- Of James McNeill Whistler -- Of Rembrandt -- Of followers of Rembrandt and others -- Of Dürer -- Of Van Dyck -- Of William Blake -- Of Goya and Rops -- Of J.M.W. Turner -- Of Seymour Haden -- Of modern men -- Of the materials necessary for making an etching -- Of copper plates and other plates -- Of etching grounds -- Of grounding and printing rollers -- Of etching needles -- Of scrapers, burnishers, roulettes -- Of acids -- Of presses -- Of ink -- Of paper -- Of grounding plates-- Of drawing on the plate -- Of biting in -- Of corrections in biting -- Of re-grounding -- Of dry point -- Of sand paper and aquatint -- Of mezzotint -- Of colour etchings -- Of monotypes and relief plates -- Of printing -- Of trials and states -- Of publishing prints -- Of the preservation of prints -- Of the arrangement of a print room -- Of cataloguing -- Of teaching etching"
OCLC: 316494
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