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Aquatint Engraving
Hardcover reprint of the original 1909 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Prideaux, S. T. (Sarah Treverbian). Aquatint Engraving; A Chapter In The History Of Book Illustration. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Prideaux, S. T. (Sarah Treverbian). Aquatint Engraving; A Chapter In The History Of Book Illustration, . London: Duckworth & Co., 1909. Subject: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834
Women Bookbinders, 1880-1920
A study of individual women bookbinders of the period and the Guild of Women Bookbinders, focusing on Britain and also covering American women craft binders. Offers a historical introduction, profiles key women in the field, and examines less traditional styles of bookbinding, such as embroidery and painting on vellum, revived by women binders of the time. Appendices list tools used by particular binders, women and groups associated with the Guild, and British women in charge of bookbinder's shops, 1648-1901. Includes 32 color photos of bookbindings and some 100 bandw photos. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Aquatint
How an ingenious printmaking technique became a cross-cultural phenomenon in Enlightenment Europe Driven by a growing interest in collecting and multiplying drawings, artists and amateurs in the eighteenth century sought a new technique capable of replicating the subtlety of ink, wash, and watercolor. They devised an innovative and versatile new medium—aquatint—which would spread in use across Europe within a few decades, its distinctive dark tones making possible a remarkable variety of ingenious imagery. In this illuminating book, Rena M. Hoisington traces how the aquatint technique flourished as a cross-cultural and cosmopolitan phenomenon that contributed to the rise of art publishin...
London and the Emergence of a European Art Market, 1780-1820
Showcasing diverse methodologies, this volume illuminates London's central role in the development of a European art market at the turn of the nineteenth century. In the late 1700s, as the events of the French Revolution roiled France, London displaced Paris as the primary hub of international art sales. Within a few decades, a robust and sophisticated art market flourished in London. London and the Emergence of a European Art Market, 1780–1820 explores the commercial milieu of art sales and collecting at this turning point. In this collection of essays, twenty-two scholars employ methods ranging from traditional art historical and provenance studies to statistical and economic analysis; t...
A Bibliographic History of the Book
"...skillfully compiled...should be useful to anyone interested in placing his or her studies in the context of printed and bound literature..." --ENGLISH LITERATURE IN TRANSITION 1880-1920
Visualizing Disease
Visual anatomy books have been a staple of medical practice and study since the mid-sixteenth century. But the visual representation of diseased states followed a very different pattern from anatomy, one we are only now beginning to investigate and understand. With Visualizing Disease, Domenico Bertoloni Meli explores key questions in this domain, opening a new field of inquiry based on the analysis of a rich body of arresting and intellectually challenging images reproduced here both in black and white and in color. Starting in the Renaissance, Bertoloni Meli delves into the wide range of figures involved in the early study and representation of disease, including not just men of medicine, ...
