Etching In America
Hardcover
1886 · NY
by Hitchcock, J.R.W.
NY: White, Stokes and Allen, 1886. Hardcover. VG, and very nice copy with no faults to mention. Brown cloth. x, 95 pp. 1 etching. Authors name is J. Ripley Hitchcock. Original etching frontispiece by R. Swain Gifford Frontispiece is a reproduction of the first original plate etched at the New York Etching Club. Publisher's advertisements follow text./ Bound in brown cloth with gilt letters and illustration on top cover; gilt letters on spine./ Includes illustrated t.p. and colored, illustrated lining papers./ "There are histories of American painting and engraving, but 'Etching in America' is the first book devoted to this branch of our art. As a history, it records the subserviency of etching in the hands of our early engraver etchers, and the various influences leading to the late emancipation of etching as an art"--Preface, p. [vii]. (Inventory #: 6168)