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.