lumsden e s ernest stephen (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. 1925. First edition (a limited edition of 150 copies with four original etchings by Lumsden was also issued). 376pp., frontispiece and 152 other black and white plates, 55 text illustrations, and 16 pages of advertisements. Ernest Stephen Lumsden (1883-1948) was a distinguished painter, noted etcher and authority on etching. In this book he describes the various techniques of intaglio printing using etching, drypoint, mezzotint and aquatint; and tells the history and development of etching through Rembrandt, Goya and the etching revival; and reproduces personal, illustrated notes from several eminent etchers of the period on their techniques including: Marius Bauer, Frank Benson, Muirhead Bone, George Clausen, David Young Cameron, Frank Short, Augustus John, Frank Brangwyn, James McBey, Edmund Blampied, Percy Smith, Christopher Nevinson, Laura Knight, and John Everett. The book is bound in the original grey-brown cloth covered boards with red titling and decoration on the spine and front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with some shelf wear and light soiling to the boards. The titling on the spine is slightly worn and the spine ends are bumped. There is a thin developing split of about 1/2" in the cloth on the top of the rear spine edge. The contents are tight and clean with no inscription.