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Etching in America: with lists of American etchers and notable collections of prints
1886, White, Stokes & Allen
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Edition Notes
"Copyright, 1886 by White, Stokes, & Allen"--T.p. verso.
Frontispiece is a reproduction of the first original plate etched at the New York Etching Club--CSmH files.
Publisher's advertisements follow text.
Bound in brown cloth with gilt letters and illustration on top cover; gilt letters on spine.
Includes illustrated t.p. and colored, illustrated lining papers.
"There are histories of American painting and engraving, but 'Etching in America' is the first book devoted to this branch of our art. As a history, it records the subserviency of etching in the hands of our early engraver etchers, and the various influences leading to the late emancipation of etching as an art"--Preface, p. [vii].

