Themes in Aquatint

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1978 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Limited to 500 copies printed at the Cambridge University Press. Folio. 104pp. 16 reproductions of plates by Rowlandson, Gilpin, and others, some in color. Cloth-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine. A very fine copy. An excellent book on the history of the etching process of aquatint. Beginning with the early period (pre-1800), this handsome work provides an anthology, with ample quotation, of examples from groups among aquatint books, divided into themes. Covered are early aquatint-illustrated books on sport, common life, doggerel, city and cottage, and views and tours..