Etching & Etchers

Half gilt ruled red morocco over marbled boards; gilt particulars and 5 raised bands to spine. All edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Finely bound, attractive copy with supple hinges. Hors texte original etchings throughout, including a Rembrandt printed from the original plate. Some other artists included are: Gautier, Haden, Daubigny, Ostade, Waterloo, Hamerton, Cope, Redgrave, Ansdell, Callot, Longueville, Weirotter, and more.… Read more about this item

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1886. Fourth Edition. Hardbound. VG- (Light shelfwear overall to boards and block, age toning and light foxing. Pages are otherwise clear.). Black cloth with gold lettering and decoration, gilt top edges; bw illustrated title page, 459 pp. with 12 plates and 3 additional illustrations. Provides information on the Dutch, French, and English schools of etching,… Read more about this item

Roberts Brothers, 1888. Hardcover. Fair/No jacket. 5th edition. Covers worn. Spine peeling away. Text block is in good shape. Has a tipped-in slip from the Ruskin Club. As-Is.

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1886. Fourth Edition. Hardbound. G (Ex-art library with spine label, bookplates, barcode, and few marks; some material torn from head of outer spine; has average wear and tear overall; pages are clean; this copy is missing two of the 12 etching plates.)/Hardcover. Black cloth with gold lettering and decoration, gilt top edges; bw illustrated title… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1912. 459 pages; 12 plates of etchings by various artists, including the author. Each etching has a glassine overleaf with red text, which explains the etching process in some detail. A second glassine protects the etching. Binding is tight; boards only mild wear at edges; gilt titles and decoration on the backing lightly faded. Top… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan Company, 1876. New Edition. Hardcover. G-, Covers have ear, rubbing, corners bumped. Back cover has staining. Spine has wear but still attractive. Spine is almost completely detached from text block, but can be repaired. Black end papers, no inscriptions or ownership plates. Pages lightly age-toned with some foxing but overall smooth. Plates are in good condition.. … Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company., 1916. Hamerton's important history and account of the methods of etching, first published in 1866; here in a later American edition. "The first edition of this work has been for some time exhausted, and copies of it are only to be had occasionally from dealers in rare books, at fancy prices." Illustrated by the author… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1902. 7th. Cloth. Good +. Black cloth with gilt illustration on front, gilt illustration and lettering on spine. Top edges are gilt. Scratches and wear on back, rippling on front top right corner, wear to extremities. Repair to top endcap and hinge. Some pages are untrimmed. Examples of etchings throughout. Comprehensive look at… Read more about this item

London: MacMillan and CO., 1876. New Edition. Hardcover. Good. 23 x 15.5 cm. Octaov. xxx 459pp. This the "new edition" (second edition, first issue). Illustrated with 12 plates of etchings, woodcut on title page. Bound in publisher's brown cloth decorated in gilt and black on front cover and spine. Gilt top foredges. Spine worn at hinges, corners bumped.… Read more about this item

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1878. Hard Cover. vg+. octavo. 459pp Brown cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Binding tight. A very nice copy.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1876 . Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 6". Philip Gilbert Hamerton. An attractive edition of this guide to etching by printmaking advocate Philip Gilbert Hamerton Written by artist Philip Gilbert Hamerton, this attractive edition of Etching and Etchers provides practical guidance, as well as a survey of the art form and its key proponents.… Read more about this item

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892. Sixth edition, 1892. Externally fair, internally good to very good. Black cloth over beveled boards, gilt lettering and decoration, 459 pages plus publisher's ads. Covers rubbed and scuffed, a few tiny holes to the rear joint, spine a little faded, hinges internally repaired and secure, text block firm, pages lightly age-toned but clean, no names or… Read more about this item

Little, Brown, and Company, 1916-01-01. Hardcover. Good/Missing. Hardbound without dust jacket published 1916 hy Little, Brown. Spine with edge wear; name written in pencil on front endpaper, tiny pencil markings in margins on a number of pages; generally mild wear.

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892. Sixth Edition. Hardbound. VG- (overall shelfwear to boards and block edges as expected with age, but overall VG condition). Black cloth with gilt lettering and design, gilt top edges; illustrated end pages, xxvi pages, l leaves, 354 pages l leaves, plates (some folded). Provides information on the Dutch, French, and English schools of etching,… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan and Co, 1876. Second Edition. A New Edition, Illustrated, 12 etched plates. 1 vols. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth, covers a little rubbed, internally fine. Second Edition. A New Edition, Illustrated, 12 etched plates. 1 vols. 8vo. A standard work, being both a study in connoisseurship, and a practical treatise: the artist-author has copied, by etching, twelve… Read more about this item

Boston:: Roberts Brothers,, 1878.. Later edition.. publisher's bevelled illustrated cloth.. Old ownership signature on title; cloth rubbed at extremities. . Large 8vo,. Twelve etched plates with overleaves printed in red.

Wakefield: EP Publishing, 1975. New edition, 8vo, 459pp, photo reproductions; VG Copy in sl tanned VG DJ. New Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Little, Brown , 1912. Hardcover. Very Good. Vg solid and tight

1876. HAMERTON, Philip Gilbert. ETCHING & ETCHERS. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1876. First American edition. Illustrated with 11 of 12 plates; lacks #12, "Poplars and Oaks," by Hamerton. Octavo. xxxii,459 pp. Green pictorial cloth, printed with black and stamped in gilt. Publisher's catalog tipped-in at front endpapers; ink ownership stamp to flyleaf. Binding is shaken, with slight splitting to lower… Read more about this item

Macmillan, 1876. 3rd. Leather bound. Very Good. 1876 Macmillan 2nd edition in full leather fine binding by Worsfold. Original spine and cover bound into the rear, top edge gilt, gilt decorated spine and boards. Tight and unmarked with all the original plates intact. d66 Please email for photos.