The Print Collector: An Introduction to the Knowledge Necessary for Forming a Collection of Ancient Prints. Containing Suggestions as to the Mode of Commencing Collector, the Selection of Specimens, the Prices and Care of Prints. Also Notices of the Marks of Proprietorship Used by Collectors, Remarks on the Ancient and Modern Practice of the Art and a Catalogue Raisonné of Books on Engraving and Prints |
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Page 181 - At the end of the seventeenth, and beginning of the eighteenth centuries...
Page 198 - An Inquiry into the Origin and Early History of Engraving upon copper and in wood. With an account of Engravers and their works from the invention of Chalcography by Maso Finiguerra to the time of Marc
Page 197 - Regalia; as also, Chalcographiana, or the Printseller's Chronicle and Collector's Guide to the Knowledge and Value of Engraved British Portraits.
Page 197 - Amateur's Pocket Companion; or, a Description of scarce and valuable engraved British Portraits, also of the rare or curious books, as mentioned in the works of Granger, Bromley, Noble etc.
Page 189 - A Chronological Series of Engravers from the Invention of the Art to the Beginning of the present Century. Cambridge, 1770, 12mo.
Page 64 - ... prints of English portraits: I have been collecting them above thirty years, and originally never gave for a mezzotinto above one or two shillings. The lowest are now a crown; most, from half a guinea to a guinea. Lately, I assisted a clergyman [Granger] in compiling a catalogue of them; since the publication, scarce heads in books, not worth threepence, will sell for five guineas.
Page 187 - TO WHICH IS ANNEXED A NEW MANNER OF ENGRAVING, OR MEZZOTINTO, COMMUNICATED BY HIS HlGHNESS PRINCE EUPERT TO THE AUTHOR OF THIS TREATISE, JOHN EVELYN, ESQ. THE SECOND EDITION. LONDON, 1755.
Page 197 - A CATALOGUE OF PORTRAITS OF FOREIGNERS WHO HAVE VISITED ENGLAND, AS NOTICED BY LORD CLARENDON, HEATH IN HIS CIVIL WARS, THURLOE IN HIS STATE PAPERS, ETC. ETC. BYNAMES CAULFIELD. LONDON, 1814.
Page 196 - Essai sur l'origine de la gravure en bois et en tailledouce, et sur la connoissance des estampes des xv" et xvie siècles, où il est parlé aussi de l'origine des cartes à jouer et des cartes géographiques; suivi de recherches sur l'origine du papier de coton et de lin ; sur la calligraphie depuis les plus anciens temps jusqu'à nos jours, sur les miniatures des anciens manuscrits, sur les filigranes des papiers...
Page 199 - An Essay on the utility of collecting the best works of the ancient engravers of the Italian school; accompanied by A Critical Catalogue with interesting...