Eighteenth Century Colour Prints: An Essay on Certain Stipple Engravers and their Work in Colour
by Julia Frankau
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Indeed
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
Item Price
A$1,057.87A$952.08
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About This Item
London: Macmillan and Company, Limited, 1900. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 18" by 14". None. A scarce limited edition of this beautifully illustrated and important work, compiled and edited by Julia Frankau. This edition is limited to 200 copies. Complete with 52 coloured plates with accompanying tissue guard. Collated complete. This work explores the art of stipple engravers, a technique used to create tone in an intaglio print by distributing a pattern of dots of various sizes and densities across the image. Written, compiled and edited by Julia Frankau, an Irish novelist who wrote under the name of Frank Danby. Frankau wrote on many subjects, including engraving, these titles were often released under her own name. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, very neat with light shelf wear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light spotting to the extremities, particularly to the front and last few pages. Some pages unopened to the top edge. Very Good Indeed
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 839T64
- Title
- Eighteenth Century Colour Prints: An Essay on Certain Stipple Engravers and their Work in Colour
- Author
- Julia Frankau
- Illustrator
- None
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Indeed
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Company, Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1900
- Size
- 18" by 14"
- Keywords
- Colour Prints Stipple Frankau Stipple
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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