etching outline technical processes history de koehler (4 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is a very scarce title, probably because the 31 superb etchings used as illustration would each be worth a considerable amount. They are either original etchings by artists living at the time (including James McNeil Whistler), or fine quality etchings produced by the Heliogravure method after famous artists such as Durer and Rembrandt. In addition there are 95 illustrations in the text, some of them full page. The text is xiv,[2],238 pages. Original gilt decorated cloth in sound condition with some repairs, the pages and plates are clean with no foxing or staining. Sylvester Rosa Koehler (1837-1900) was a German-born American author and museum curator. He was the first curator of prints at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Hardcover. Black library buckram. xvi + `238 pp. 30 plates and 95 additional bw illustrations. Oversize. Hard to find reference work and historical overview of etching. VG- (ex-library. usual markings, plus all 30 plates are ink stamped on front, usually over the lower corner of the image itself. no tissue guards, so facing pages are slightly toned from contact with the ink. occasional small chips/tears in page margins, some finger smudges, most pronounced on first page of index. library binding in VG condition, though top corners are bumped).

Hardcover. Oversized blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on front cover and spine; xiv, 238 pp; 12 leaves of plates; illustrations and portraits. Hard to find reference work and historical overview of etching. Good- (heavy shelfwear and soiling to boards; lightly age toned but otherwise clear, small tears to some pages along borders, only includes 12 of the original 30 plates.).

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. xiv, 238pp; 80 in-text illustrations plus 30 tissue-guarded full page plates all in black and white. Original brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine and front, bevelled edges. Large folio. Interior binding repairs along endpaper gutters. Worn covers with rubbed spine ends and edges. Bottom corners well rubbed, cloth worn through at all corners. Silk ends papers. Strained gutters are end papers. Loose title page. Very light foxing to early prelim pages.