137 Rare Old Books on Engraving Wood Metal Glass Jewelry Etching Intaglio Engraver Tools Techniques Patterns How To - Instant PDF Download

THE VINTAGE ENGRAVING COLLECTION

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The Digital Library is proud to present this stunning virtual archive of 137 rare, vintage and hard-to-find books and documents compiled together for the first time in one unique virtual library covering all aspects of the ancient art of ENGRAVING.

Discover the history, antiquity, theory and practice of both wood-engraving and metal-engraving. Read about old master engravers from around the world and study their master-pieces. Learn about woodcuts and the various methods and techniques applied by the famous Japanese and European woodcutters hundreds of years ago. Discover the pleasure of old prints, including Japanese colour prints, and the collection of fine prints. Study the arts of chalcography, engraving in mezzotinto and etching. Overall, this is an absolute must for anyone with an interest in the art of engraving, the masters and their master-pieces, as well as fine prints and their collection. The full list of titles included speaks for itself….

This is a DIGITAL item providing literally 1,000’s of pages of great content and fabulous photos / illustrations for the reader. All of the books have been scanned in high quality and preserved forever in pdf format - easy to read on your laptop, computer, tablet, smartphone, kindle or e-reader. You can also print entire books or select pages. Most of the books are written in English with several additional texts in German and French.



Full List of Books Included:


Engraving – Books in English:

A bibliography of American books relating to prints and the art and history of engraving by H. C. Levis (1910)

A brief history of wood-engraving from its invention by J. Cundall (1895)

A descriptive bibliography of the most important books in the English language, relating to the art & history of engraving and the collecting of prints by H. C. Levis (1912)

A history of Japanese colour-prints, with illustrations in colour and black and white by W. Von Seidlitz (1910)

A history of the art of engraving in mezzotinto, from it's origin to the present times, including an account of the works of the earliest artists by J. Chelsum (1786)

A history of wood-engraving by G. E. Woodberry (1883)

A short history of engraving and etching by A. M. Hind (1908)

A treatise on wood engravings - historical and practical by W. A. Chatto (1881)

A trio of eighteenth century French engravers of portraits in miniature. Ficquet, Savart, Grateloup by W. L. Andrews (1899)

Albrecht Altdorfer - a book of 71 woodcuts photographically reproduced in facsimile by T. S. Moore (1902)

An early Connecticut engraver and his work by A. C. Bates (1906)

An essay on prints by W. Gilpin (1792)

An inquiry concerning the invention of printing, including also notices of the early use of wood-engraving in Europe, the block-books, etc. by W. Y. Ottley (1863)

An inquiry into the origin and early history of engraving Vol. 1 by W. Y. Ottley (1816)

An inquiry into the origin and early history of engraving Vol. 2 by W. Y. Ottley (1816)

Andrea Mantegna and the italian Pre-Raphaelite engravers by A. M. Hind (1911)

Ariadne florentina; six lectures on wood and metal engraving by J. Ruskin (1892)

Art gems. A series of thirty high-class engravings from pictures by the most eminent painters ancient and modern by E. Lievre (1873)

Baziliologia, a booke of kings; notes on a rare series of engraved English royal portraits from William the Conqueror to James I by H. C. Levis (1913)

British military prints by R. Nevill (1909)

Cambridge by lamplight; 9 woodcuts by P. B. Redmayne (1921)

Catalog of wood engravings (1887)

Catalogue of a collection of woodcuts of the German school, executed in the XVth and XVIth centuries by Burlington Fine Arts Club (1882)

Catalogue of early German and Flemish woodcuts preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum Vol. 1 by C. Dodgson (1903)

Catalogue of early German and Flemish woodcuts preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum Vol. 2 by C. Dodgson (1903)

Catalogue of prints and books, illustrating the history of engraving in Japan. Exhibited in 1888 by Burlington Fine Arts Club (1888)

Chats on old prints by A. Hayden (1906)

Considerations on engraving by T. Cole (1921)

Contemporary English woodcuts by C. Dodgeson (1922)

Drawing & engraving by P. G. Hamerton (1892)

Early Florentine woodcuts - with an annotated list of Florentine illustrated books by P. Kristeller (1897)

Early woodcut initials - containing over thirteen hundred reproductions of ornamental letters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries by O. Jennings (1908)

Eighteenth century colour prints - an essay on certain stipple engravers & their work in colour by J. Frankau (1906)

Engravers and etchers by F. R. Carrington (1917)

Engraving - its origin, processes, and history by H. Delaborde (1886)

Engraving and etching - a handbook for the use of students and print collectors by F. Lippmann (1907)

Engraving and printing methods by unknown author (1909)

Engraving for illustration by J. Kirkbride (1903)

Engravings and their value - a guide for the print collector by J. H. Slater (1891)

Etching and other graphic arts by G. T. Plowman (1914)

Etching in America by R. Hitchcock (1886)

F. Wheatley, R. A., his life and works, with a catalogue of his engraved pictures by W. Roberts (1910)

Fine prints by F. Wedmore (1897)

French engravers and draughtsmen of the XVIIIth century by L. Dilke (1902)

French engravers of the eightenth century by A. Younger (1913)

French portrait engraving of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries by T. H. Thomas (1910)

French prints of the eighteenth century by R. Nevill (1908)

From Holbein to Whistler - notes on drawing and engraving by A. M. Brooks (1920)

Gossip about portraits - principally engraved portraits by W. F. Tiffin (1866)

How to appreciate prints by F. Weitenkampf (1916)

Impressions of Ukiyo-ye, the school of the Japanese colourprints artists by D. Amsden (1905)

Italian book illustrations, chiefly of the fifteenth century by A. W. Pollard (1894)

Japanese illustrations; a history of the arts of wood-cutting and colour printing in Japan by E. Strange (1904)

Japanese wood engravings - their history, technique and characteristics by W. Anderson (1895)

Japanese wood-cutting and wood-cut printing by T. Tokuno (1894)

Lectures on the art of engraving by J. Landseer (1807)

Mezzotints by C. Davenport (1904)

Modern etching and engraving by C. Holme (1902)

Modern etching and their collectors by T. Simpson (1919)

Modern etchings, mezzotints and dry-points by C. Holme (1913)

Modern letter engraving in theory and practice; a manual for the use of watchmakers, jewelers and other metal engravers by F. H. Rees (1898)

Modern woodcuts and lithographs by British and French artists by C. G. Holme (1919)

Old English mezzotints by M. C. Salaman (1910)

On collecting Japanese colour-prints by B. Stewart (1917)

One hundred and fifty wood cuts, selected from the Penny magazine; worked by the printing machine from the original blocks (1835)

Plate printing and die stamping; how to operate a department for copperplate and steel-die engraving and printing by R. F. Salade (1917)

Practical instruction in the art of wood engraving by W. A. Emerson (1876)

Prints - a brief review of their technique and history by E. H. Richter (1914)

Prints and their makers, essays on engravers and etchers, old and modern by F. R. Carrington (1913)

Sculptura, or, The history and art of chalcography, and engraving in copper by J. Evelyn (1769)

Some German woodcuts of the fifteenth century by W. Morris (1898)

Some practical hints on wood engraving for the instruction of reviewers and the public by W. J. Linton (1879)

Specimen of wood engravings presented by Charles Alt, engraver on wood. (1886)

Specimens of early wood engraving, being impressions of wood-cuts in the possession of the publisher by W. Dodd (1862)

Specimens of wood engraving by unknown author (1839)

Suppressed plates, wood engravings, together with other curiosities germane thereto; being an account of certain matters peculiarly alluring to the collector by G. S. Layard (1907)

The art of drawing and engraving on wood by G. W. Marx (1881)

The art of graueing, and etching, wherein is exprest the true way of graueing in copper by W. Faithorne (1662)

The art of making fine prints by A. E. Howarth (1921)

The art of wood-engraving in Italy in the fifteenth century by F. Lippmann (1888)

The best portraits in engraving by C. Sumner (1875)

The Bewick collector - a supplement to a descriptive catalogue of the works of Thomas and John Bewick by T. Hugo (1868)

The dream of Poliphilus. Facsimiles of one hundred and sixty eight woodcuts in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Venice, 1499 by F. Colonna (1889)

The essentials of illustration, a practical guide to the reproduction of drawings & photographs for the use of scientists & others by T. G. Hill (1915)

The gallery of British engravings; consisting of twenty-two splendid steel engravings from the works of the most eminent painters (1901)

The gallery of engravings by G. N. Wright (1845)

The gallery of Scripture engravings, historical and landscape, with descriptions, historical, geographical and pictorial Vol. 1 by J. Kitto (1902)

The gallery of Scripture engravings, historical and landscape, with descriptions, historical, geographical and pictorial Vol. 2 by J. Kitto (1902)

The golden age of engraving - a specialist's story about fine prints by F. Keppel (1910)

The grammar of lithography by W. D. Richmond (1880)

The grammar of painting and engraving by C. Blanc (1891)

The graphic arts - treaties on the verieties of drawing, painting and engraving in comparison with each other and with nature by P. G. Hamerton (1882)

The graphic arts of Great Britain; drawing, line-engraving, etching, mezzotint, aquatint, lithography, wood-engraving, colour-printing by M. C. Salaman (1917)

The history of engraving from its inception to the time of Thomas Bewick by S. Austin (1908)

The history of wood-engraving in America by W. J. Linton (1882)

The illustrated London drawing book by R. S. Burn (1853)

The legendary history of the cross a series of sixty-four woodcuts from a Dutch book published by Veldener, A.D. 1483 by J. Veldener (1887)

The loves of the poets; or, Portraits of ideal beauty twelve highly-finished original steel engravings, by the most eminent artists by W. H. Mote (1860)

The manufacture of metallic articles electrolytically - electroengraving by W. Pfanhauser (1906)

The master E.S. and the Ars moriendi - a chapter in the history of engraving during the XVth century by L. Cust (1898)

The masters and master-pieces of engraving by W. O. Chapin (1894)

The old engravers of England in their relation to contemporary life and art (1540-1800) by M. C. Salaman (1906)

The origin and antiquity of engraving with some remarks on The utility and pleasures of prints by W. S. Baker (1872)

The print collector; an introduction to the knowledge necessary for forming a collection of ancient prints by J. Maberly (1880)

The unequalled collection of engraved portraits of Napoleon Bonaparte and his family and marshals, belonging to Hon. J. T.Mitchell (1908)

The wonders of engraving by G. Duplessis (1873)

The woodcutters of the Netherlands in the fifteenth century, in three parts by W. M. Conway (1884)

Tools and materials used in etching and engraving by Victoria and Albert Museum. Dept. of Engraving, Illustration, and Design (1898)

University prints - Woodcuts and engravings (1912)

Whitman's Print-collector's handbook by A. Whitman (1912)



Engraving – Books in German:

Beiträge zur Geschichte des sächsischen Holzschnittes (Cranach, Brosamer, der Meister MS, Jakob Lucius and Kronstadt) von H. Rottinger (1921)

Das Wunderblut zu Wilsnack von P. Heitz (1904)

Der chinesische farbendruck von J. Kurth (1922)

Der deutsche Holzschnitt; sein Aufstieg im XV. Jahrhundert und seine grosse Blüte in der ersten Hälfte des XVI. Jahrhunderts von K. Zoege von Manteuffel (1921)

Der Holzschnitt von M. J. Friedlander (1921)

Der japanische Holzschnitt. Ein Abriss seiner Geschichte von J. Kurth (1911)

Der Kupferstich von F. Lippmann (1896)

Der Kupferstich von H. W. Singer (1904)

Der original-holzschnitt; eine einführung in sein wesen u. seine technik von M. Bucherer (1922)

Die deutsche Graphik von E. Bock (1922)

Die Graphik der Neuzeit vom Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegenwart von C. Glaser (1922)

Die Kölner Bibel. Mit einer Einführung von Wilhelm Worringer [und] mit 27 Abbildungen [von 1479] von W. Worringer (1923)

Die Kunst der japanischen Holzschnittmeister von L. Bachhofer (1922)

Die primitiven Holzschnitte von K. Pfister (1922)

Fliegender Sommer - aus den Papieren des Goswin Krell von A. Putzel (1922)

Handbuch für kupferstichsammler von J. Heller (1870)

Hundertfünfzig Einzelbilder des XV. Jahrhunderts von P. Heitz (1918)

Katalog der im Germanischen museum vorhandenen zum abdrucke bestimmten geschnittenen holzstöcke vom xv.-xviii. jahrhunderte. Mit abdrücken von solchen (1892)

Originalabdruck von Formschneider-Arbeiten des XVI, XVII und XVIII. Jahrhunderts von P. Heitz (1892)

Schrifteigentümlichkeiten auf ältern Holzschnitten als Hilfsmittel ihrer Gruppierung von W. Molsdorf (1914)

Strassburger Holzschnitte zu Dietrich von Bern, Herzog Ernst, der Hürnen Seyfrid, Marcolphus von P. Heitz (1922)

Wittemberger Heiligthumsbuch von L. Cranach (1884)



Engraving – Books in French:

A travers cinq siécles de gravures, 1350-1903; les estampes célèbres rares ou curieuses par G. Bourcard (1903)

Gravures par J. J. Grandville (1880)

Histoire artistique et archéologique de la gravure en France par A. Bonnardot (1849)

La gravure en Italie avant Marc Antoine, 1452-1505 par H. Delaborde (1883)

La gravure; précis élémentaire de ses origines, de ses procédés et de son histoire par H. Delaborde (1882)

Les gravures françaises du 18e siècle; ou, Catalogue raisonné des estampes, eauxfortes, pièces en couleur, au bistre et au lavis, de 1700 à 1800 par E. Bocher (1875)

Les merveilles de la gravure par G. Duplessis (1882)

Les procedes de la gravure par A. de Lostalot (1882)


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