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Livres anciens et modernes

Franklin, Colin

Themes in Aquatint

1978

62,98 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Détails

Année
1978
Lieu d'édition
San Francisco. The Book Club of California
Auteur
Franklin, Colin
Edition
First edition, limited edition of 500 copies.
Thème
Books about Books, Collecting Reference
Langues
Anglais
Premiére Edition
Oui

Description

folio [37.5 x 25 cm]; vii, 104 pp, 16 plates from original aquatints, mostly colored, index. original cloth backed marbled boards, gilt spine title lettering, very fine and clean, unmarked and unused, with the orig plain dj (short tear), with the extra loose plate in orig printed folder prospectus, with the orig receipt from publisher dated 1979. This is the finely produced limited edition, printed at Cambridge University Press for The Book Club of California with colour plates printed at the Curwen Press, London, typographical design by John Dreyfus. An excellent and impressive work covering early books on aquatint, sport, the common life, doggerel, city and cottage, view, tours and the visual book, showing the use of aquatint printing of plates through the ages. The illustrations are taken from some of the finest illustrated books from 1775 to 1842, the golden age of aquatint.