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W & G Foyle, 1968-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. . Minor wear on the covers, covers, and edges. May contain some writing and or highlighting within the pages.

W AND G FOYLE LTD, LONDON, 1968. VG. no dj. green boards slightly sunned to spine. otherwise all in excellent condition. sharp-cornered..all pages present. no inscriptions or marginalia.

London: W & G Foyle, 1968. Used - Very Good. 1968. hardcover. Cloth, no dj. Minor shelf wear. Else a bright, clean copy. Very Good. (Subject: Books on Books).

LondonL Duckworth & Co. 1909. First edition, small 4to, frontis., 24 plates, orig. cloth, worn, lower joint split. This is still a standard work covering the history of processes, the development of colour printing, Ackermann, aquatint in foreign travel, English topography, sport and natural history, caricature and costume.

W & G Foyle Ltd, 1968-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book, Hardback/Hardcover, usual stamps and marking. Clean text, sound binding.

W. & G. Foyle, London, first edition, 1909. Cloth, top edge gilt, 8vo, 25 cm,. xv, 434 pp, 25 plates. Prideaux's work focusses almost exclusively on English books, with aquatint illustrations, published between 1775 and 1830. From a contemporary review of the first edition:" Miss Prideaux writes an excellent style, and I remember no book on any branch of engraving which explains so intelligently the connection of the art with all the social conditions of the period in which it arose. She has not merely looked at the illustrations, but has read the books in which they appeared. Her chapters on the rise of water-colour painting in England, on topographical draughtsmanship, on the water-colour painters as teachers and their drawing-books, on the eighteenth century fondness for English topography and the somewhat later passion for books on foreign travel, are all most interesting.. ". Contents: Introduction; I The Aquatint Process; II The Development of Colour Printing and the… Read More

London: W. & G. Foyle Ltd, 1968. cloth. thick 8vo. cloth. xv, 434 pages. Reprint of the 1909 first edition. With plates printed on better paper.

London: Duckworth, 1909. First edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 434; illustrated by an original aquatint, two collotypes plates, and numerous half-tone plates; original blue cloth lettered in gilt, t.e.g.; light general wear to cloth, shaken, name in ink and small label on front free endpaper, overall a clean, sound copy. With several appendixes and an index.