Mezzotints

NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1903. Hardcover. Good (shelwear to boards, bookplate of previous owner inside front cover; light age toning but pages are otherwise clear.). Green cloth, gilt lettering and design. bw frontispiece with protective guard sheet; xlv, 207 pp, 40 unnumbered pages of plates, untrimmed pages. Contents: Note -- List of the more important works on mezzotints -- Index to plates -- Chapter I. Mezzotint engraving on metal: what it is and how it is done. How prints are made from mezzotinted plates, and how to keep them when they are made; inks, papers, and coloured prints. The enemies of prints, and the literature of mezzotints. Continental engravers in mezzotints -- Chapter II. The pioneers of mezzotints engraving who worked about the middle of the seventeenth century: Ludwig von Siegen, Prince Rupert, T.C. von Furstenberg, Wallerant Vaillant, The Van Somers, Abraham Blooteling, William Sherwin, and Francis Place. The later mezzotint engravers of the seventeenth century: E. Luttrell, Isaac Beckett, W. Faithorne, R. Williams, J. Vandervaart, John Smith, and J. Verkolje -- Chapter III. The mezzotint engravers of the eighteenth century: the Fabers, P. Pelham, T. Frye, J. MacArdell, R.E. Fisher, W. Dickinson, J. Watson, J. Spilsbury, R. Dunkarton, John Dean, J.R. Smith, J. Murphy, and C. Turner -- Chapter IV. Mezzotint engraving in the nineteenth century. The work of S.W. Reynolds, J.M.W. Turner, W. Say, G. Clint, T.G. Lupton, W. and J. Ward, D. Lucas, Samuel Cousins, C.W. Campbell, Frank Short, John D. Miller, Gerald P. Robinson, Miss E. Gulland, R.S. Clouston, and Norman Hirst -- Index.