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ENGRAVING
~Vintage Book Collection~

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Engraving is a unique form of art with a very rich and detailed history dating back over half a millennium with the earliest known engraving dating back to 1446. Engraving was a historically important method of producing images on paper, both in artistic printmaking, and also for commercial reproductions and illustrations for books and magazines Engraving can take place on a number of materials such as copper or zinc plate to wood panels and is also used to cover several printmaking techniques, such as etching, stipple engraving or mezzotint.

Collected together here for the first time on one amazing data DVD are 84 rare, vintage books on the subject of engraving. Includes texts showcasing some of the great engravers of history such as Albrecht Durer, Andrea Mantegna and Hans Holbein, studies of schools, styles and techniques of engraving, many examples of some of the finest engravings produced and also a special selection of books concerning Japanese wood engravings.

Published in the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries, each book here, in PDF format, is a 300dpi scan of the original pages so you will be reading each book exactly as intended.

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Includes 100's of stunning illustrations / examples. Take a look at some samples:

Includes the following books

A Brief History of Wood-Engraving From its Invention - J Cundall (1895)
A History of Wood-Engraving - G Woodberry (1883)
A Manual of Instruction in the Art of Wood Engraving - SE Fuller (1867)
A Short History of Engraving & Etching For the Use of Collectors & Students - AM Hind (1908)
A Treatise on Wood Engravings; Historical & Practical - WA Chatto (1881)
Albrecht Altdorfer; A Book of 71 Woodcuts Photographically Reproduced in Facsimile - T Sturge Moore (1902)
Albrecht Dürer, His Engravings & Woodcuts - AM Hind (1911)
An Important Collection of Incunabula & XVI Century Books - Gilhofer & Ranschburg, Vienna (1900)
An Inquiry Into the Origin & Early History of Engraving Upon Copper & In Wood Vol 1 - W Ottley (1816)
An Inquiry Into the Origin & Early History of Engraving Upon Copper & In Wood Vol 2 - W Ottley (1816)
Andrea Mantegna & the Italian Pre-Raphaelite Engravers - AM Hind (1911)
Ariadne Florentina; Six Lectures on Wood & Metal Engraving - J Ruskin (1904)
Bartolozzi & Other Stipple Engravers Working in England at the End of the 18th Century - AM Hind (1912)
Bernhard von Breydenbach & His Journey to the Holy Land 1483-4; A Bibliography - H Davies (1911)
Catalogue of Early German & Flemish Woodcuts Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum Vol 1 (1903)
Catalogue of Early German & Flemish Woodcuts Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum Vol 2 (1903)
Chats On Old Prints - A Hayden (1906)
Considerations on Engraving - T Cole (1921)
Contemporary English Woodcuts - C Dodgson (1922)
Early Florentine Woodcuts - P Kristeller (1897)
Early Woodcut Initials Containing Over 1,300 Reproductions of Ornamental Letters of the 15th & 16th Centuries - O Jennings (1908)
Engraving & Etching; A Handbook for the Use of Students & Print Collectors - F Lippmann (1906)
Engraving; Its Origin, Processes, & History - HC Delaborde (1886)
Etching in America; With Lists of American Etchers & Notable Collections of Prints - JRW Hitchcock (1886)
Fragonard, Moreau le Jeune, & French Engravers, Etchers, & Illustrators of the Later XVIII century -AM Hind (1913)
Hans Holbein the Younger; His Old Testament Illustrations, Dance of Death & Other Woodcuts - A Hind (1912)
Illustrated Catalogue to an Exhibition of Engravings by the 3 Great Masters of the 16th century, Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Van Leyden, Marc Antonio Raimondi - R Erderheimer (c1914])
Italian Book Illustrations, Chiefly of the 15th Century AW Pollard (1894)
John Raphael Smith, & the Great Mezzotinters of the Time of Reynolds - HM Hind (1911)
Marcantonio & Italian Engravers & Etchers of the 16th Century - AM Hind (1912)
Mezzotints - C Davenport (1904)
Modern Etchings, Mezzotints & Dry-Points - C Holme (1913)
Modern Wood Engraving - The Westminster Review (1839)
Modern Woodcuts & Lithographs by British & French Artists - MC Salaman (1919)
Old English Mezzotints - MS Salaman (1910)
One Hundred & Fifty Wood Cuts, Selected from the Penny Magazine (1835)
Prints & Their Makers; Essays on Engravers & Etchers, Old & modern - FR Carrington (1913)
Prints; A Brief Review of Their Technique & History - E Richter (1914)
Reproductions of Woodcuts by F Sandys 1860-1866 - M Sandys (1910)
Some German Woodcuts of the Fifteenth Century - Kelmscott Press (1898)
Some Practical Hints on Wood Engraving for the Instruction of Reviewers & the Public - WJ Linton (1879)
Specimens of Early Wood Engraving, Being Impressions of Wood-Cuts in the Possession of the Publisher - W Dodd (1862)
Suppressed Plates, Wood Engravings, &c., Together With Other Curiosities Germane Thereto; Being an Account of Certain Matters Peculiarly Alluring to the Collector - GS Layard (1907)
The Art of Drawing & Engraving on Wood - GW Marx (1881)
The Art of Wood-Engraving in Italy in the 15th Century - F Lippmann (1888)
The Golden Age of Engraving; A Specialist's Story About Fine Prints - F Keppel (1910)
The Graphic Arts of Great Britain; Drawing, Line-Engraving, Etching, Mezzotint, Aquatint, Lithography, Wood-Engraving, Colour-Printing - M Salaman (1917)
The History of Engraving From its Inception to the Time of Thomas Bewick - S Austin (1908)
The History of Wood-Engraving in America - WJ Linton (1882)
The Masters & Master-Pieces of Engraving - WO Chapin (1894)
The Old Engravers of England in Their Relation to Contemporary Life & Art (1540-1800) - MC Salaman (1906)
The Print Connoisseur - Volume 1 (1920)
The Print Connoisseur - Volume 2 (1922)
The Wonders of Engraving - G Duplessis (187_)
Thomas Bewick & His Pupils - A Dobson (1884)
University Prints - Boston University (19__)
William Blake; Being All His Woodcuts Photographically Reproduced In Facsimile (1902)
William Hogarth; His Original Engravings & Etchings - AM Hind (1913)

Foreign Language texts:

Albrecht Altdorfer und Wolf Huber - H Voss (1910)
Der Kupferstich F Lippmann (1896)
Der Original-Holzschnitt; Eine Einführung in Sein Wesen u. Seine Technik - M Bucherer (1922)
Die Deutsche Graphik - E Bock (1922)
Die Graphik der Neuzeit vom Anfang des 19 Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegenwart - C Glaser (1922)
Die Kölner Bibel - W Worringer (1923)
Die Primitiven Holzschnitte - K Pfister (1922)
Durer; Des Meisters Gemalde, Kupferstiche und Holzschnitte in 447 Abbildungen, Mit Einer Biographischen Einleitung - V Scherer (1904)
Fliegender Sommer; Aus den Papieren des Goswin Krell - A Putzell (1922)
Graphik der Gegenwart - M Liebermann (1900)
Katalog der Im Germanischen Museum Vorhandenen Zum Abdrucke Bestimmten Geschnittenen Holzstöcke vom XV-XVIII. Jahrhunderte. Mit Abdrücken von Solchen - A von Essenwein (1892)
Kupferstich und Holzschnitt in Vier Jahrhunderten - P Kristeller (1911)
La Gravure; Precis Elementaire de ses Origines, de ses Procedes et de son Histoire - H Delaborde (1882)
Les Arts de Reproduction Vulgarises - J Adeleine (1898)
Les Estampes de Peter Brvegel L'Ancien - R van Bastelaer (1908)
Originalabdruck von Formschneider-Arbeiten des XVI, XVII und XVIII Jahrhunderts - P Heitz (1892)
Prentkunst in de Nederlanden Tot 1800 - PTA Swillens (1900)

Some more example illustrations

Also includes the following selection of books on Japanese prints / wood engraving:

A History of Japanese Colour-Prints - W von Seidlitz (1910)
Catalogue of Prints & Books, Illustrating the History of Engraving in Japan - Burlington Fine Arts Club (1888)
Der Japanische Holzschnitt. Ein Abriss seiner Geschichte - J Kurth (1911) [German language]
Die Kunst der Japanischen Holzschnittmeister - L Bachhofer (1922) [German language]
Impressions of Ukiyo-ye, the School of the Japanese Colour-Print Artists - D Amsden (c1905)
Japanese Illustrations; A History of the Arts of Wood-Cutting & Colour Printing in Japan - E Strange (1904)
Japanese Wood Engravings Their History, Technique & Characteristics - W Anderson (1895)
Les Estampes Japonaises. Traduction de P. André Lemoisne - W von Seidlitz (1911) [French language]
Les Maîtres de L'Estampe Japonaise - L Aubert (1914) [French language]

Some example illustrations from these books:

~ABOUT THE DVD~

These are ELECTRONIC BOOKS. You will receive 1 x standard data DVD-R disc (DVD-Rom) containing 84 pdf e-books as stated above. The books are in pdf format which means that you will need to have Adobe Reader installed on your computer to read them. If you dont have this, you can download it FREE from the Adobe website. If you don't understand this, please contact me prior to purchase.

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