Prints and the Print Market: A Handbook for Buyers, Collectors, and Connoisseurs

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1977. Cloth, xii, 493 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket, with a sunned spine (bold & legible titles), protected in a mylar cover. Excellent reference material. CONTENTS: Of autographic prints, afters, and reproductive prints; Signatures on prints; Rarity and the limited edition; Spurious prints: fakes, forgeries, and falsified proofs; Connoisseurship: detection of identity, comparative quality and condition; A chronicle of the print boom; The nature and scope of the print market: a guide for buying and selling prints; People who publish prints; People who sell prints to the public; People who auction prints; Prints as investments; Preservation, conservation, and restoration; Tales of two print marketeers; Where prints may be seen: a guide to public print institutions; Where prints are talked about: a guide to print clubs and societies; Bibliography: a comprehensive and definitive catalogue of publications on prints by familiar artists and related matters; Directory of print publishers in the United States and Great Britain; Print conservators and restorers; Directory of print dealers and galleries; A trilingual lexicon. French-English-German; German-English-French; Art booksellers. . 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo.