The art of etching : a complete & fully illustrated description of etching, drypoint, soft-ground etching, aquatint & their allied arts, together with technical notes upon their own work by many of the leading etchers of the present time / by E.S. Lumsden

London : Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Some minor foxing to prelims. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 376 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. Notes; ""With 208 illustrations"". Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Introductory -- Essentials -- The plate -- Grounds and ""grounding"" the plate -- Points, scrapers, burnishers and gravers -- Mordants -- List of materials and tools -- Plan of an etching room -- Methods of biting -- Printing -- Additional work--mistakes and their remedy -- Transferring--""negative"" and ""relief"" etching -- Soft ground, aquatint, and the pen method -- Daypoint and mezzotint -- Printing papers -- Flattening and mounting -- Mildew and restoring -- The medium in relation to the artist's idea -- A brief survey of etchers up to the year 1800 -- D�rer and Lucas van Leyden -- Rembrandt and Van Dyck -- Goya -- British etchers of the nineteenth century -- Meryon and the French revival -- Haden and whistler -- The moderns -- Personal notes by eminent etchers on their methods. Subjects; Etching Technique. Etching History. Etching. Prints. Dry-point Technique. Etching (printing process).