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VICTORIAN BOOK ILLUSTRATION, THE TECHNICAL REVOLUTION
Wakeman, Geoffrey

- Newton Abbot : David & Charles (1973) - 8vo.. - boards, dust jacket. - 182 pages. - Order Nr. 27793 - Price: $ 145.00

First edition. With 40 illustrations. Chapters on wood engraving, etching, aquatint, lithography, chromolithography, printing presses of the period, the photomechanical revolution, the 1890s, etc. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson, the author's own copy with some pages of manuscript notes loosely inserted. Jacket spine faded.

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