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London : Blandford Press, (1968). A reprint of the original 1963 edition. A very attractively produced and illustrated guide to the tools and techniques of woodcut, linocut, wood-engraving, printing, paper, etc.
Foolscap 4to (23cm). (64)pp. Illustrations throughout, many in a second colour. Original boards; a fine and bright copy in the just slightly rubbed but still very clean and fresh dust-jacket.

£15

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Birmingham : Charles F. Bullock, 1901. First edition. A brief life of the celebrated colour-printer George Baxter (1804-1867), together with an extensive priced list of his works – 193 assorted prints arranged by subject, ten missionary subjects, thirty portraits, thiry-three British views, and forty-four books containing Baxter prints. Compiled by the Birmingham bookseller and antique dealer Charles F. Bullock, “Baxter Expert”, who claimed to have the largest and finest collection of Baxter prints in the country.
Foolscap 4to (21cm). (30)pp. Four plates. Original wrappers; a little worn and creased, with a pronounced vertical crease from having been folded for the pocket; lacks final blank leaf, neatly excised; a few minor marks and small flaws, but a reasonable copy of a scarce and fragile production. Contemporary ownership inscription of E. A. Baxter on upper wrapper. Some underlining and annotation in the text by an evidently serious collector.

£25

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London : George Routledge & Sons / New York : G.P.Putnam’s Sons, 1924. First edition. A well-illustrated and wide-ranging guide in the Home Connoisseur series – with chapters on the engravers; processes; terms; wood blocks; mezzotints; stipples; line engraving; aquatints; lithographs; colour prints; Baxter prints; Arundel prints; early book illustrations; frontispieces and title-pages; dedicatory plates; printers’ marks; bookplates; portraits; Japanese colour prints; sporting prints; military prints; costumes; trade cards; tickets, etc.
Demy 8vo (22cm). xii,(282),[ii]pp. Plates. Original cloth gilt; just a hint of rubbing; a few plates a little loose (but all present); a very good and bright copy.

£25

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Oxford : At the Clarendon Press, 1906. First complete edition. The text of Evelyn’s 1662 treatise – the first to record the invention of mezzotint engraving – and here reproduced with the corrections and additions from the 1755 edition. Also included in this edition for the first time is Evelyn’s translation of Abraham Bosse, “Traicté des Manières de Graver”, offering for the first time in English a comprehensive account of the construction and workings of the rolling press, the manufacture of appropriate ink, the preparation of the paper for printing, etc. Edited by Charles Francis Bell (1871-1966), with a separate introduction to the second part by Arthur Herbert Church (1834-1915).
Post 8vo (20cm). xxiv,[xxxii],(152),viii,32pp. Plates, one folding. Facsimile. Original limp card covers; yapp edges; spine a little tanned; some minor wear; a few spots, but otherwise a very good copy. Contemporary (1900) bookplate of Dr. Robert Saundby (1849-1918), designed by Edmund Hort New (1871-1931), and the later ex-libris label of John Macpherson Pinkerton (1941-1988).

£50

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Leicester : Dryad Press, (1954). First edition. John Farleigh and a masterly illustrated essay on the techniques of wood engraving – the blocks, the printing, the use of the graver, the spitsticker, the round and square scorper, the tint tool and the multiple tool, etc.
Demy 8vo (23cm). (52)pp. Illustrated with Farleigh’s diagrams, illustrations and examples throughout. Original decorative boards in a three-colour Farleigh design. Very good.

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London : Ackermann, 1983. First edition. A richly illustrated and meticulously researched history of the celebrated art publishing and art dealing concern founded by Rudolph Ackermann (1764-1834). With much incidental material on Henry Alken, William Combe, John Buonarotti Papworth, Augustus Pugin, Thomas Rowlandson, George Stubbs, and other authors and artists; a checklist of the Ackermann books, games, and music; a bibliography, etc.
Demy 4to (31cm). 256pp. Illustrations throughout, many in colour. Original boards; top edge a touch dusty, but otherwise a very good copy indeed in the dust-jacket – the jacket also very good.

£25

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London : Bloomsbury Books, (1986). Second edition. A well-illustrated study, originally published under the longer title in 1978. With much on Thomas Bewick, William Blake, John Buckland-Wright, Edward Gordon Craig, John Farleigh, Robert Gibbings, Eric Gill, David Jones, Clare Leighton, George Mackley, Iain MacNab, Paul Nash, etc.
Demy 4to (29cm). (408)pp. Illustrations throughout. Original rexine; very good in a sunned and faintly creased dust-jacket.

£25

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Oxford : Phaidon Press, (1978). First edition. An erudite study of the evolution of a British style, from the Elizabethans through Hollar and Hogarth to Hockney – work in engraving, mezzotint, aquatint, etching, etc., with much on Francesco Bartolozzi, Thomas Bewick, William Blake, etc.
Super royal 8vo (26cm). 244pp. Illustrations, some in colour. Original boards; a touch bruised; top edge a little spotted, but otherwise very good indeed in the dust-jacket – the jacket slightly sunned at spine and lightly nicked.

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London : Astragal Books, (1980). First edition. A well-illustrated guide, with introductory material on engraving methods, the engravers, publishers, art-unions, etc., and an illustrated catalogue of 181 engravings, with full technical details, commentary, etc. Glossary and bibliography.
Demy 4to (29cm). x,182pp. Numerous illustrations. Original boards; top edge a touch dusty, but a very good copy in the dust-jacket – also very good.

£25

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London : Charles Knight & Co., 1839. First edition. A monumental and attractive treatise on the whole history and practice of wood-engraving, with much on the antiquity of the process, the age of Durer, the revival under Thomas Bewick, the precise techniques and tools employed, etc. Jackson had served part of his apprenticeship under Bewick himself and was one of the finest practitioners of his time. His collaborator, William Andrew Chatto (father of the publisher), also wrote on the history of playing-cards, etc.
Elephant 8vo (161 x 174mm). xvi,(750),[ii]pp. Seven plates, some coloured, including a Baxter print of Ovingham and a double-page “patent illuminated map” of Jerusalem by William Hughes. Numerous wood engravings in text, some coloured. Bound in a smart later (late twentieth-century) half-calf; marbled sides and endpapers; text a little shaken, but firm in binding; a few slight marks, but overall a very good copy. Occasional interesting pencilled annotation from a widely-read and knowledgeable former owner, sadly unidentifiable.

£250

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[London] : Edward Hulton, 1960. First edition. Essays by various hands on all manner of craft work – Edward Bawden on lino cutting, David Gentleman on wood engraving, and further chapters on embroidery, patchwork, fabric collages, rugs, handweaving, upholstery, chair-caning, rush basket-work, toys, dolls, glove puppets, toy theatres and much more.
Demy 8vo (23cm). (372)pp. Plates. Illustrations. Diagrams. Original patterned boards; very good in a just lightly used and slightly nicked dust-jacket. Ownership inscription of Beryl G. Miller.

£25

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London : Parker Gallery, 1911. First edition : a variant with the Parker Gallery label pasted over the original T. H. Parker imprint. A catalogue of the collection of 287 prints, with extensive descriptive and historical notes, an index of artists and engravers, a general index, etc. – the whole forming an illuminating history of the British navy. With an interesting introduction by the naval historian, Commander Charles Napier Robinson (1849-1936).
Foolscap 4to (22cm). xx,(340)pp. Frontispiece and eighteen plates. Original blue cloth, ruled in blind and lettered in gilt; just a touch rubbed; a few faint marks and some mild occasional spotting, but a bright and sound copy.

£40

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London : The Connoisseur, (1927). First edition. An attractively illustrated study, with a full index of atists and engravers, in the Connoisseur “Books for Collectors” series. With an introduction by C. Reginald Grundy.
Demy 4to (29cm). xiv,50pp. Fifty plates, forty-eight in colour.Original cloth gilt; top edge gilt; a few faint marks, but a very good and bright copy in the dust-jacket – the jacket a touch dusty, and slightly holed, creased and chipped.

£25

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London : The Studio, 1910. First edition. A handsomely bound and richly illustrated monograph, with an admirably researched history of the genre.
Demy 4to (287 x 199mm). xii,(44)pp. 128 plates. Contemporary half red morocco, banded and gilt, for Sotheran, by Alfred & Frank Denny of the Strand; top edge gilt; some minor wear; some occasional spotting, but a very good copy.

£100

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London : Tate Gallery for the Yale Center for British Art, 1981. First edition. A lavish catalogue-cum-bibliography, giving detailed descriptions of the magnificent Paul Mellon collection of sporting prints – hunting, shooting, racing, riding, coaching, and much more. In The Sport in Art and Books – the Paul Mellon Collection series.
Demy 4to (31cm). [2],xxii,(258),[ii]pp. 139 plates (twenty-five in colour). Original cloth gilt; a few faint marks, but a very good copy in a slightly nicked and lightly creased dust-jacket.

£50

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Manchester : Privately Printed, [1887]. First edition. A tour of the methods of engraving – wood-engraving, dot manner, line engraving, chiaro-oscuro, etching, soft-ground etching, dry-point, mezzotint, aquatint, stipple, Blake’s manner, etc. – with reference to the great masters. The presidential address to the Birkenhead Literary & Scientific Society, Session XXXI, 1887-1888.
Demy 8vo (23cm). [viii],106,[iv]pp. Five collotype plates. Original stiff card wrappers, top edge gilt; floral cotton endpapers; a few faint spots, but a very good copy in the original parchment dust-jacket, printed in red and black, and with a design by Thomas Bewick on the upper panel; the parchment a little soiled and discoloured.- but still attractive.

£40

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Strawberry Hill : by Thomas Kirgate, 1765-1771. Second edition. The complete four volume set, together with the supplementary volume, “A Catalogue of Engravers, who have been Born or Resided in England” (1765). Still a key early source, covering not just painters, but architects, sculptors, etc. Already richly illustrated with over 100 portraits, etc., by Alexander Bannerman, Thomas Chambars, Anthony Walker, etc., the number here has been more than doubled by the insertion of 130 additional plates – mainly portraits, but also including contemporary engravings of Strawberry Hill, etc., and in the supplementary volume a rich array of examples of work by the some of our earliest engravers, including plates engraved by Thomas Cecill, John Droeshout, Renold Elstrack, William Faithorne, Richard Gaywood, George Glover, Remy Hogenberg, David Loggan, Pierre Lombart, George Vertue himself, several by Robert White, and numerous others.
Five volumes. Crown 4to (225 x 172mm). (xiv),182,[xx]; [ii],182,[lviii]; [ii],167,[xi]; (xii),(152),[viii]; [iv],140,14,20,[viii]pp. Plates. Portraits. Bound (probably about 1830) in elaborate late eighteenth-century style – full red straight-grain morocco, lavishly gilt; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; some light wear; joints reinforced in one or two places; a few slight marks and small flaws; some of the additional plates cropped, folded, or re-margined to size, but a very good, fascinating and valuable example of a grangerised (extra-illustrated) copy. With the armorial bookplate of Cyril Flower, Lord Battersea (1843-1907), Victorian aesthete and parliamentarian, in each volume.

£4,000

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London : for J. Dodsley, 1782. First trade edition. A pioneering and still valuable study, giving in chronological order details of some 160 early English engravers, often with incisive comment on their merits, and preserving material which would not otherwise survive. Originally printed and published as a supplementary volume to Walpole’s “Anecdotes of Painting In England” at Walpole’s private press at Strawberry Hill some twenty years earlier.
Crown 8vo (189 x 119mm). [ii],304,[vi]pp. Bound in a smart recent quarter calf; marbled sides and endpapers; some occasional internal spotting and browning; a few slight marks, but otherwise a very good copy.

£200

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London : Rare Book Society, 2011. First edition. An illustrated dictionary of well over 1,500 members of the map-trade in the British Isles from the beginnings until the mid nineteenth century, including all the known engravers and lithographers, all the known globemakers and retailers, the principal mapsellers and publishers, the key cartographers, the makers of map-based games and puzzles, and others. Each entry includes a list of published work, the known biographical facts (in most cases based on fresh and original research), addresses and dates, details of apprentices, etc. Twenty-five years in the making, the book contains previously unpublished material on almost every page.
Royal 8vo (25cm). xxxii,744pp. Over 600 illustrations; apprentice charts, etc. Original buckram; very good in the dust-jacket. Please note an additional UK 10 for postage overseas.

£125

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London : Williams & Norgate, (1938). First British edition. A richly illustrated historical survey of the printmaker’s art, with an introductory essay, separate chapters on The End of Gothic, the Renaissance, the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Oriental Prints, etc., with 488 plates and illustrations.
Crown 4to (27cm). (406),[ii]pp. Plates. Original cloth; a few faint marks and minor signs of use, but a very good copy.

£25

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