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Schraubstadter, Carl PHOTO-ENGRAVING. A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE PRODUCTION OF PRINTING BLOCKS BY MODERN PHOTOGRAPHIC METHODS.
Saint Louis C. Schraubstadter, Jr. 1892 8vo. original cloth. 132, (4) pages.
First edition. Contains a history of the process of producing printing blocks followed by a practical discussion by an expert in the field. An interesting look at a developing field. A four-page pamphlet entitled, "Day's Zinc Engraving Process" is loosely inserted. This pamphlet is accompanied by a single illustrated sheet. Covers rubbed.
Price: $ 185.00 other currencies Order nr. 98738

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Schweidler, Max SAMMELN UND SICHTEN, EINE PRAKTISCHE GRAPHIKKUNDE
Innsbruck Universitäts-Verlag Wagner 1941 8vo. cloth viii, 211 pages followed by 11 pages of plates
Written in German. With a foreword and index. Corners bumped, extremities rubbed, spine faded, boards slightly cocked. With the bookplate of Oak Knoll designating this as from the library of H. P. Kraus.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 101508

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Selborne, Joanna BRITISH WOOD-ENGRAVED BOOK ILLUSTRATION 1904-1940: A BREAK WITH TRADITION.
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Press 2001 small 4to. stiff paper wrapper 458 pages
First Edition, second printing. Book illustration by British wood-engravers from 1904 to the beginning of the Second World War was among the most versatile and inventive of the graphic arts. In a climate of typographical renaissance, various wood-engravers made dynamic impact on the appearance of the printed page, transforming good books into works of art and influencing modern standards of book production. This extraordinary book reveals the methods by which these pioneering artists broke with nineteenth-century illustrative practices. Detailed studies of unpublished material, including art school records, publishers' and print societies' archives, and artists' correspondence, throws new light on the work and practices of these innovative artists. Reprinted from 1998 Oxford University Press edition.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 103113

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THE SELF INSTRUCTOR, OR, YOUNG MAN'S BEST COMPANION;.
being an introduction to all the various branches of useful learning and knowledge. Containing writing, grammar, arithmetic, astronomy, geography, chronology, and miscellaneous articles. To which is added, The Artist's Assistant; comprising the arts of drawing, perspective, etching, engraving, mezzotinto scraping, painting, dyeing, colouring of maps, etc. A brief account of naval and military affairs. Also, various useful medicinal receipts. Liverpool printed and published by Nuttall, Fisher, & Dixon n.d. (circa 1810) 8vo. contemporary half calf, marbled paper-covered boards, red leather spine label (iv), 593, (3) pages
The Artist's Assistant begins on page 512 and encompasses many techniques. Binding worn, paper somewhat browned, a "used" copy with various small stains throughout. First and last few pages rather clumsily repaired at the hinges. Seven plates are wood engravings, the other two are intaglio engravings. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson.
Price: $ 125.00 other currencies Order nr. 98700

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(Seller, John) Verner, Coolie ENGRAVED TITLE PLATES FOR THE FOLIO ATLASES OF JOHN SELLER
n.p. N.P. n.d. 8vo. stapled stiff sheets 21-52 pages
An excerpt from My Head is a Map, published in 1973. Surveys the engraving methods and techniques used by John Seller. Upper-left stapled corner bumped. Some wear on edges of first and last pages.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 97580

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Shestack, Alan MASTER E.S., FIVE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION
Philadelphia Philadelphia Museum of Art 1967 small 4to. stiff paper wrapper (102) pages
Printed in an edition limited to 1500 copies. Introduction examines how Master E.S., "the most important graphic artist active in middle Europe about the middle of the 14th century" affected the development of the art of engraving. Extensive catalogue entries with bibliography. Many illustrations full-page. Lettering in red and black. Memorial bookplate on front pastedown indicates that this copy came from the H.P. Kraus reference library and stock. Cover slightly soiled.
Price: $ 13.00 other currencies Order nr. 77241

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Shmatau, V.F. MASTATSVA BELARUSKIKH STARADRUKAU XVI-XVIII STST.
Minsk Tekhnalogii'a 2000 4to paper-covered boards, title, author, and decoration gilt-stamped on front board 129, (3) pages,
Text in Belarussian. History of book engraving and illustration in Belarus, from the 16th to the 18th centuries. Preface. 127 black and white illustrations. Listing of additional materials not in text. Bibliography. List of abbreviations and table of contents. Harvard University catalogue entry laid in. Bookplate on front pastedown.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 108654

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Simms, Rupert BIBLIOTHECA STAFFORDIENSIS
Lichfield A.C. Lomax 1894 large 4to. original cloth, uncut pages with top edge gilt xxv, (ii), 546+(1) pages
Printed in an edition limited to 200 numbered copies (Besterman 5885). Bibliography of all "books and other printed matter relating to--printed or published in--or written by a native resident, or person deriving a title from--any portion of the county of Stafford." Many of the approximately 20,000 entries have detailed commentary. Rupert Simms (1854-1937) lost both hands and an arm at the age of eight but learned to write by inserting a pencil in a hole in the leather case he wore on his right arm. A secondhand bookseller by trade, he spent 11 years collecting and collating the information for this bibliography. Bookplate on front pastedown of Donald and Mary Hyde. Ink inscription on front pastedown by Henry Elwell, 1894. Elwell also signed the title page. Hinges, head and tail of spine worn. Corners rubbed. Both covers scuffed.
Price: $ 212.00 other currencies Order nr. 77455

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Slater, Herbert J. ENGRAVINGS AND THEIR VALUE A COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE COLLECTION AND PRICES OF ALL CLASSES OF PRINTS
New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1929 large thick 4to. cloth. ix, 707, (5) pages.
Sixth and best edition, revised and enlarged by F.W. Maxwell-Barbour. Includes 24 illustrations and 300 facsimiles of engravers marks. Covers rubbed and split along hinge. Shaken.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 103120

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(Smillie, James) Allodi, Mary Macaulay and Rosemarie L Tovell ENGRAVER'S PILGRIMAGE, JAMES SMILLIE IN QUEBEC, 1821-1830.
Toronto Royal Ontario Museum (1989) 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xx, 139 pages.
First edition. Essentially an autobiography of Smillie's life in Scotland and Canada. Also contains a catalogue of all of his known work up until 1830. Well-illustrated.
Price: $ 8.00 other currencies Order nr. 25869

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Smith, James THE PANORAMA OF SCIENCE AND ART.
Liverpool printed at the Caxton Press, by Nuttall, Fisher, and Dixon n.d. (circa 1815) 8vo. rebound in marbled paper-covered boards, paper spine and front labels x, iii-xii, 697-799 pages and 4 plates
The present volume contains the title page for volume 1 and the indexes to both volumes 1 & 2. The text itself is three parts of volume 2 on Drawing. Painting and Engraving removed from the larger work at some point. There are four plates. No date is printed, but [1815] has been written on the title page. Dampstain in the upper corner of a few pages, first few pages much more worn and soiled than the rest. Endpapers new with the rebinding. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson.
Price: $ 125.00 other currencies Order nr. 98176

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Smith, John Chaloner, B.A. BRITISH MEZZOTINT PORTRAITS; BEING A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THESE ENGRAVINGS FROM THE INTRODUCTION OF THE ART TO THE EARLY PART OF THE PRESENT CENTURY
2 volumes containing 4 parts. Mansfield Centre Martino Publishing 2004 Oversized 8vo. cloth. circa 2000 pages.
Facsimile reprint of the first edition originally published in London in 1883 by Henry Sotheran & Co. 'Mezzotint' is a printing process of the intaglio family, in which the surface of a metal plate is roughened evenly; the image is then brought out by smoothing the surface, creating the image by working from dark to light. The mezzotint technique, invented in Germany in the 1640s, found its apogee in 18th-century England as the ideal medium for reproducing oil paintings. The method is tonal rather than linear: the forms and highlights are pulled out of an overall dark background by scraping or burnishing in the highlights. Whereas a few painters, notably Thomas Frye, became gifted mezzotinters, the most skilfull practitioners like John Raphael Smith, Valentine Green and Richard Earlom were professional engravers who made brilliant interpretive plates after England's best-known artists including Reynolds, Gainsborough, Zoffany, Stubbs and Joseph Wright of Derby. The proper appreciation of mezzotints depends crucially on two absolute prerequisites: the quality of the impression and the condition of the paper.

Such is the nature of the technique that a mezzotint plate can only give a small number of impressions before the burr on the plate gets worn down by the pressure of printing, so that what should print black and velvety comes out looking flat and grey. Despite its date, still a standard reference work for mezzotints. Very scarce.
Price: $ 275.00 other currencies Order nr. 86816

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(Smithsonian Institution) G.A. 100, THE CENTENARY OF THE DIVISION OF GRAPHIC ARTS.
Washington DC Smithsonian 1986 large 8vo. staples, stiff paper wrappers. 50, (2) pages.
Catalogue of an exhibition organized by Elizabeth Harris et al., with a history of the Division of Graphic Arts, a list of previous exhibitions, and a select bibliography.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 50116

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Stauffer, David McNeely, Mantle Fielding and Thomas Hovey Gage AMERICAN ENGRAVERS UPON COPPER AND STEEL
4 volumes in 3 New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Books 1994 8vo. cloth. (iv),xxxi,391+(1); x,566; xi,365,(47) pages.
In 1907 David McNeely Stauffer's two-volume set of AMERICAN ENGRAVERS UPON COPPER AND STEEL was published in a limited edition of 350 copies. This pioneer work provided biographical sketches and a checklist of the works of over seven hundred American engravers. Little had previously been written about this subject, as the great majority of early American engravers were relatively obscure men and often the only record of their existence as engravers was the few impressions of a plate accidentally preserved. Stauffer's work was based on the prints themselves - their signatures, dates and publishers - and he realized there were omissions. In 1917 Mantle Fielding, who had corresponded with Stauffer and seen many of his notes, published a supplement in a numbered, limited edition of 220 copies. Stauffer's and Fielding's works on American Engravers are well indexed for engravers and partly indexed for subjects. However, engravers are for the most part only copyists; they reproduce on copper, steel or stone the work of another. Much valuable information as to the identity of the painters of early portraits can be obtained from examining engraved copies. Thus in 1920 Thomas Hovey Gage added an Artist Index to these important volumes. This reprint is the first time these four scarce volumes have appeared together as a set. When the noted dealer in Americana, William Reese, was informed of this project, he commented, "The pioneering works of Stauffer and Fielding have remained vital references for those interested in early American engraving, printing, and book illustration. For many years the original editions of 1907 and 1917 have been all but unobtainable, and these lacked the vital index separately published in 1920. Oak Knoll Books has done scholars, collectors and librarians a great service by making them available in what may properly be styled a `second, and best, edition'."
Price: $ 120.00 other currencies Order nr. 97941

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STEREOTYP
Obrázkový vzorník, oborných a reklamních, stocku a podtisku [Illustrated sample book, specialty and advertising, engraving and background printing]...specielní odborný závod stereotypérsky, rozmnozování sazeb. stocku, drevorytu, matric atd. [specialty professional stereotype establishment, duplication rates, engraving, xylography, matrices, etc.] Vinohrady (Praha) Stereotyp n.d. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (32) pages.
The style of the examples suggests the 1920's or '30's. Paper wrapper lightly soiled, chip at bottom mended with tape, small tear to last page and wrapper, water stain at bottom right corner.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 74365

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(Sterling Engraving Company) CHART OF HALFTONE SCREEN TINTS, AN ACCURATE GUIDE IN DETERMING THE EFFECTS OF HALFTONE TINTS OF VARIOUS VALUE AND SCREEN ON DIFFERENT QUALITITES OF PAPER.
New York Sterling Engraving Company n.d. 12mo. paper wrappers. (12) pages.
Demonstration booklet. Some spotting in corner.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 91408

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Stevenson, Sara A FACE FOR ANY OCCASION.
some aspects of portrait engraving (Glasgow) (Bell & Bain Ltd.) 1976 4to. stiff paper wrappers viii, 128 pages
Compiled two years after a 1974 exhibition which stressed the influences operating on an artist and his sitter, this is not intended to be a study of the aesthetics of engraved portraits, but of the unique relationship between painter, engraver and subject, and the social pressures and conventions which affected all three. With 200 black-and-white illustrations of paintings and engravings in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Corners lightly bumped and soiled. Cover separating from spine at lower edge. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 99941

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Stijnman, Ad ENGRAVING AND ETCHING 1400-2000: A HISTORY OF THE DEVELPOMENT OF MANUAL INTAGLIO PRINTMAKING PROCESSES.
Houten HES & DE GRAAF 2012 8.25 x 11.5 inches hardcover 672 pages
This book surveys the history of the techniques of engraving, etching, and plate printing, i.e. that of manual intaglio printmaking processes from their beginnings in the 1430s until today. These developments are observed in the light of the coherence between the technique of the intaglio print (such as its materials and methods of production); the style or outward appearance of the print; the creator of the print; and the fashion typical of a particular social group, place and time. Economic, educational and social aspects are discussed, as well as the worldwide dissemination of the trade of intaglio printmaking.

The author shows how intaglio printmaking developed steadily from the mid-fifteenth century, with the invention of the roller press and the etching of printing plates. By 1525 intaglio printmaking techniques could be said to have reached maturity and spread east and west following the European trade routes and colonization. Further developments in plate-making resulted from a series of inventions and reinventions. After the abolition of the guilds on the European continent around 1800, and the introduction of photography and the expansion of the graphic industry, the engraving of images became a mere mechanical procedure. The handcrafted print made way for the large-scale mechanized graphic industry which emerged in the middle of the nineteenth century. Consequently artist-etchers withdrew to an elite position to concentrate on the manual aspects of printmaking, which is the situation today.

This comprehensively illustrated study is the first of its kind to cover all elements of the trade of engraving and etching throughout six centuries. Based on an exhaustive number of primary sources, it will be an essential resource for collectors, curators, conservators, printmakers, and students of technical art history.

Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 195.00 other currencies Order nr. 114782

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(Stockton, Frank R.) Pforzheimer, Walter L. STOCKTONIANA, AN ESSAY
Purchase Privately Printed 1936 tall 8vo. cloth backed boards, paper spine label 42+(1) pages.
Limited to 145 copies printed by the Pynson Printers of New York. Contains an essay by Pforzheimer, a prefatory note by William Lyon Phelps, and Stockton's short story "The Lady, or The Tiger?". Illustrated. Wear at spine ends.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 87110

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(Stone, Reynolds) Linklater, Eric A SOCIABLE PLOVER AND OTHER STORIES AND CONCEITS.
London Rupert Hart-Davis 1957 small 8vo. cloth with gilt lettering on spine 222 pages
First edition. Illustrated with five wood engravings by Reynolds Stone.
Price: $ 5.00 other currencies Order nr. 79808

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Strang, David. THE PRINTING OF ETCHINGS AND ENGRAVINGS.
With an Introduction by Martin Hardie. London Ernest Benn Limited 1930 8vo. cloth. x, 218, (12) pages.
First edition (Bridson & Wakeman B77 - "A detailed treatise on all practical and artistic aspects of the craft"). With the bookplate of Gavin Bridson. Presentation on free endpaper "To Charles E. Pont with compliments from David Strang, London. Dec. 1937" and with Pont's bookplate on front pastedown.
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 97967

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Strang, David. THE PRINTING OF ETCHINGS AND ENGRAVINGS.
With an Introduction by Martin Hardie. London Ernest Benn Limited 1930 8vo. cloth. x, 218, (12) pages.
First edition (Bridson & Wakeman B77 - "A detailed treatise on all practical and artistic aspects of the craft"). With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Covers slightly faded.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 98363

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Sullivan, George H. ALGERNON SYDNEY SULLIVAN, A MEMOIR WITH TRIBUTES AND A MEDAL
Babylon NY Gustave Kobbé (1911) large 12mo. original blue cloth 71, (7) pages, plus five plates and medal
The book, written by Sullivan's son, contains the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Medal that was issued and presented by the American Numismatic Society. The Numismatic Society was the successor to the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Memorial Committee. This medal was issued from time to time by the society in commendation of all the human and noble use of a person's abilities, "so conspicuous in the life of Mr. Sullivan." It was especially issued to young men and women admitted to practice at the bar in New York City. The medal was designed by J.E. Roiné in 1908 and was the first specimen struck in the year. Among the members of the original committee were Grover Cleveland, Andrew Carnegie, Rev. Edward Everett Hale, Cyrus H. McCormick and many other prominent businessmen and politicians. The medal is housed in a thick cardboard structure that is stubbed into the text block in the middle of the book. The plates are four portraits of Sullivan and a photograph of the Memorial Drinking Fountain, still in existence in Van Cortland park in New York City. This seems to be a scarce item with only one copy listed in OCLC.
Price: $ 1,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 97829

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(Svolinskeho, K.) SATIRY O REMESLNÍCÍCH A KONSELECH NEVERNÝCH.
(Prague Státní tiskárna 1929) 12mo quarter leather, marbled paper covered boards, top edge cut, other edges uncut 36, H, v pages
Limited to 120 numbered copies (Aron Sanka, iv, 4782). Text in Czech. Collection of satirical verse about occupations such as bakers and cobblers. Red ink headers and footers throughout. Woodcut illustrations by K. Svolinskeho. Designed by and epilogue by Fr. Krema.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 107511

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Symes, Peter KIRKWOOD & SONS, COPPER-PLATE ENGRAVERS.
(Edinburgh) Merchiston Publishing (1999) small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (viii), 113 pages.
First edition. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Illustrated history of this Edinburgh business. Merchiston Publishing is part of the Print Media department of Napier University. A scarce booklet.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 98633

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