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Engraving in England in the sixteenth & seventeenth centuries. A descriptive catalogue with introductions. Part l: The Tudor period § Part 2: The reign of James I § Part 3: The reign of Charles I (compiled from the notes of the late A.M. Hind by Margery Corbett and Michael Norton)
Cambridge, University Press, 1952-1964Three volumes (25.5 cm), I (1952): xxx, 333 pp., 156 plates (319 illustrations) and frontispiece. II (1955): xxxii, 413 pp., 252 plates (617 illustrations) and frontispiece. III (1964): xiv, 396 pp., 214 plates (466 illustrations). Uniform publisher’s red cloth, printed dust jackets (volumes II and III only). - A work intended to give a complete history of British engraving (in copper, or other metal) from the Tudor Period through the reign of Charles I; a fourth volume, which was to have covered 1649 to 1688, was never published. Each volume is arranged in three parts: the first deals with the more important works by both known and anonymous masters; the second lists engravers in chronological order; and the third describes the prints of anonymous engravers, together with the works of foreign engravers working in England. Each print is located in at least one collection. Many engravings, wholly cartographic in character are described. “Every historian of the period, every student of its literature or of its art, will want to own this book” (Frances A. Yates, from a review of volume III, in The Book Collector, Winter 1964, pp.514-518). ¶ Endpapers of volume I slightly spotted, and a few marks and insignificant stains on binding; lacking its dust jacket. The other two volumes are in fine state. Overall, an excellent, clean set of this standard work. -
Baroque book illustration : a short survey from the collection in the Department of Graphic Arts, Harvard College Library
Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1970(30 cm), (6) 45 pp., 149 illustrations on 112 p. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. - Reprint with new introductory material of the 1951 edition, in which Hofer, the initiator and spiritus rector of the Department of Graphic Arts in the Harvard College Library, presented about 150 of some 1000 illustrated baroque books collected under his aegis. Although the “Introduction” and “Descriptions of Reproductions” are brief, they offer some important and original observations. ¶ Fine copy. -
English woodcuts 1480-1535
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1973(27.5 cm), xv, 483, xvii, 82 pp., illustrations. Publisher’s blue cloth. - Corrected reprint of the 1935 edition, with new supplement (100 pp. text and 18 additional woodcuts). ¶ As new. -
Steel-engraved book illustration in England
London, Scolar Press, 1989(26 cm), xvi, 263 pp., 66 plates. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. - A history of the introduction and refinement of the steel-engraving process from 1818-1823 and of its rapid rise in popularity as a reproductive medium, followed by chapters entitled “The Art of Steel Engraving” and “The Books” with useful biographies of artists, engravers, printers and publishers, and an account of the ascendancy of rival processes - lithography, wood-engraving, and photogravure. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. -
A Guide to English illustrated books 1536-1603 (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, volume 166)
Tempe, Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1998Two volumes (24.5 cm), I: xxxi, 754 pp. II: v, 217 pp. [149] p. of plates. Publisher’s cloth bindings. - A new work extending the survey presented in Edward Hodnett’s English Woodcuts 1480-1535 (originally published 1935), listing more than 5000 woodcuts and engravings (excluding title-page borders, compartments, initials, single-sheet maps, and similar illustrative material). The authors list in an appendix post-1535 uses of earlier woodcuts and provide additions and corrections to the last (1975) edition of Hodnett. “The work is, of course, a must for the reference collections of all college and university libraries, as well as other research libraries. It is also a treasure for any individual working in sixteenth-century history, its ideological structures, and its iconography. Like the several short-title catalogues which have emerged during the past three-quarters of a century, this guide will join the ranks of indispensable reference works.” (from a review by James Tanis, in The Sixteenth Century Journal, volume 31, 2000, pp.865-866). ¶ As new.
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