The Print collector : an introduction to the knowledge necessary for forming a collection of ancient prints.

Title & Author:

The Print collector : an introduction to the knowledge necessary for forming a collection of ancient prints.

Publication:

London : Saunders and Otley, 1844.

Description:

viii, 211 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
The first American edition of this title, published in 1885, with an expanded text gives Joseph Maberly as author.
"Containing suggestions as to the mode of commencing collector, the selection of specimens, the prices and case of prints. Also notices of the masks of proprietorship used by collectors, remarks on ancient and modern practice of the art and a catalogue raisonné of books of engravings and prints."
"Catalogue raisonné of books treating exclusively on prints and engraving": pages 183-204.

Subject:

Engraving Collectors and collecting.
Engraving Bibliography.
Artists' marks.
Artistes Signatures.
Engraving.

Form/genre:

Bibliographies.
Etchings 1844.
Wood engravings 1844.

Added entries:

Maberly, Joseph.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 143580
Call No.: NE880.M2 (PO2739)
Status: Available

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