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125 Etching Engraving and Printmaking PDF Books – Curated Historical Collection

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etching engraving and printmaking 34% of collection
trades & workshop 26% of collection
public domain candidates 22% of collection
historical books 18% of collection
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    Polygraphice, or, The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, vernishing, japaning, gilding, &c. : in two volumes ... Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$32 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    A short history of engraving [and] etching : for the use of collectors and students; with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$38 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    A short history of engraving & etching for the use of collectors and students, with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$32 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$36 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    History of engraving and etching Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$37 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Modern etching and engraving Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$24 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Tools and materials used in etching and engraving; a descriptive catalogue of a collection exhibited in the museum Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$33 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Fine prints of the year: an annual review of contemporary etching and engraving .. Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$38 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Catalogue of the masterpieces of engraving and etching : collected Author: the late General Brayton Ives : to be sold at unrestricted public sale on the dates herein stated
    ~$24 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    The graphic arts of Great Britain; drawing, line-engraving, etching, mezzotint, aquatint, lithography, wood-engraving, colour-printing Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$29 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Polygraphice, or, The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming ... : to which is added a discourse of perspective and chiromancy Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$25 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Exceptional Examples of the Masters of Etching and Engraving : the Print Collection of the Late J. Harsen Purdy, of New York City Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$25 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Polygraphice, or, The art of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, colouring, and dying : in three books : the like never yet extant Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$25 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Photo-engraving, photo-etching, and photo-lithography in line and half-tone; also, collotype and heliotype Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$36 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Masterpieces of engraving and etching collected Author: the late General Brayton Ives
    ~$25 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Catalogue of the loan exhibition of British engraving and etching held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, 1903 Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$31 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Etching, engraving and the other methods of printing pictures Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$29 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Etching and mezzotint engraving : lectures delivered at Oxford Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$35 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Aquatint engraving; a chapter in the history of book illustration Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$38 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Pen pictures and how to draw them : a practical handbook on the various methods of illustrating in black and white for process engraving, with numerous designs, diagrams, and sketches Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$26 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Researches into the history of playing cards; with illustrations of the origin of printing and engraving on wood .. Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$24 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Morte d'Arthur, a poem. [Written out and illuminated Author: Alberto Sangorski. Reproduced by the Graphic Engraving Co. for Chatto & Windus]
    ~$29 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Engraving : its origin, processes, and history Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$30 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    The grammar of painting and engraving; Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$31 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    A course in fundamental principles of designing and engraving : a practical self teacher as good as a school, demonstrated and illustrated to the point Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$29 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Modern letter engraving in theory and practice; a manual for the use of watchmakers, jewelers and other metal engravers .. Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$36 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Paul Revere and his engraving Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$35 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Engraving and printing methods, advertisement illustration, technical- and trade-paper advertising, street-car advertising, outdoor advertising, house publications Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$28 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Drawing & engraving; Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$27 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    The bibliographical decameron; or, Ten days pleasant discourse upon illuminated manuscripts, and subjects connected with early engraving, typography, and bibliography Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$25 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Etching & etchers Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$24 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    A treatise on wood engraving, historical and practical Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$30 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    The printers' handbook of trade recipes, hints & suggestions relating to letterpress and lithographic printing, bookbinding stationery, engraving, etc. With many useful tables and an index Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$25 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Etching craft, a guide for students and collectors Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$30 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    The wonders of engraving Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$30 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Catalogue of the books on bibliography, typography and engraving, in the New-York state library Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$29 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Catalogue of prints and books, illustrating the history of engraving in Japan. Exhibited in 1888 Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$32 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    French portrait engraving of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$27 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    The art of wood-engraving in Italy in the fifteenth century Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$37 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Engraving for illustration; Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$31 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Etching in America; Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$31 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Ars pictoria : or, An academy treating of drawing, painting, limning and etching : to which are added thirty copper plates expressing the choicest, nearest, and most exact grounds and rules of symmetry Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$33 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    The art of drawing and engraving on wood Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$32 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    A descriptive bibliography of the most important books in the English language, relating to the art & history of engraving and the collecting of prints Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$33 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Ariadne Florentina : six lectures on wood and metal engraving : given before the University of Oxford, in Michaelmas term, 1872 Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$25 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    The graphic arts : a treatise on the varieties of drawing, painting, and engraving in comparison with each other and with nature Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$35 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    A brief history of wood-engraving from its invention Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$38 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Ariadne florentina. Six lectures on wood and metal engraving Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$37 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Etching and other graphic arts; Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$33 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Etchers and etching; chapters in the history of the art, together with technical explanations of modern artistic methods Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$28 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Catalogue of an exhibition of early American engraving upon copper, 1727-1850, with 296 examples Author: 147 different engravers
    ~$27 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Drawing for zinc etching Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$28 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    A history of wood-engraving Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$28 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Specimens of early wood engraving, being impressions of wood-cuts in the possession of the publisher Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$34 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    The art of engraving : a practical treatise on the engravers' art, with special reference to letter and monogram engraving : specially compiled as a text-book for students and reference book and guide for engravers Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$31 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Decorative painting : a practical handbook of painting & etching upon various objects & materials for decoration of our homes Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$36 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    The best portraits in engraving Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$36 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Metal work and etching Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$30 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    From Holbein to Whistler : notes on drawing and engraving Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$34 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    The writing table of the twentieth century; being an account of heraldry, art, engraving & established form for the correspondent Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$29 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    General letter engraving for watchmakers, jewelers and kindred trades : a complete exposition on the art of engraving on metals Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$31 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Modern wood engraving Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$27 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    The golden age of engraving; a specialist's story about fine prints Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$27 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Practical engraving on metal : including hints on saw-piercing, carving, inlaying, &c. Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$30 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    A descriptive catalogue of an exhibition of early engraving in America, December 12, 1904 Author: February 5, 1905
    ~$34 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Etching and other graphic arts : an illustrated treatise Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$28 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Practical instruction in the art of wood engraving Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$38 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Wood engraving Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$36 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    The Linnet's life : twelve poems with a copper plate engraving to each Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$33 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Ariadne florentina : six lectures on wood and metal engraving with appendix ; given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas term, 1872 Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$32 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    A manual of photo-engraving : containing practical instructions for producing photo-engraved plates in relief-line and half-tone with chapters on dry plate development and half-tone color work Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$25 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    A treatise on etching. Text and plates Author: Maxime Lalanne. Authorized ed. translated from the 2d French ed. by S.R. Koehler. With an introductory chapter and notes by the translator
    ~$32 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    About etching and etchers; or, Short talks about the graphic arts, artists and some of their latest productions. Illustrated Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$28 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    The masters and master-pieces of engraving Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$36 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    The writing table of the twentieth century; being an account of heraldry, art, engraving, and established form for the correspondent Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$29 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Drawing & engraving : a brief exposition of technical principles & practice Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$33 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Metallographic etching reagents: I, for copper Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$28 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Practical hints on painting, composition, landscape, and etching Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$34 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    The Jewelers' School of Engraving Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$28 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Mount Auburn illustrated : in highly finished line engraving, from drawings taken on the spot Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$26 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    The art of graueing, and etching, wherein is exprest the true way of graueing in copper. Allso the manner & method of that famous Callot, & Mr. Bosse, in their seuerall ways of etching Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$37 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Photo Engraving Co. : engraving for all purposes Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$32 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Calico engraving : a practical text-book for students, designers and all engaged in the textile industry Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$27 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Green-wood illustrated, In highly finished line engraving Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$33 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    The poems, etc., of Richard James, B.D. (1592-1638). Now for the first time collected and edited, with introduction, notes and illustrations and an etching Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$25 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    The history of engraving from its inception to the time of Thomas Bewick Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$35 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    The masters of wood-engraving Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$24 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    The British school of etching, being a lecture delivered to the Print collectors' club Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$38 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Sculptura, or, The history and art of chalcography, and engraving in copper : with an ample enumeration of the most renowned masters and their works : to which is annexed, a new manner of engraving, or mezzotinto Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$33 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    A complete treatise on artistic retouching, modeling, etching, art and nature, art and photography, character, chiaroscuro, composition, style and individuality Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$36 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Modern etching and their collectors Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$36 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Lectures on the art of engraving : delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$29 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    The Master E. S. and the'Ars moriendi'; a chapter in the history of engraving during the XVth century Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$29 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    A treatise on etching Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$29 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Some practical hints on wood engraving for the instruction of reviewers and the public Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$24 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    The Master E.S. and the 'Ars moriendi'; a chapter in the history of engraving during the XVth century, with facsimile reproductions of engravings in the University Galleries at Oxford and in the British Museum Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$38 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Metallographic Etching Reagents: III: For Alloy Steels Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$33 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Considerations on engraving Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$31 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    South London. A new ed., with an etching Author: Francis S. Walker
    ~$32 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Eugène Delacroix. One cut in four colours, 17 drawings on superfine unglazed art paper, 31 tinted illus. and 1 engraving Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$35 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    The history of wood-engraving in America Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$25 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Metallographic etching reagents: II, for Copper Alloys, Nickel, and the Alpha Alloys of Nickel Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$38 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    The process and practice of photo-engraving Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$32 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    The manufacture of metallic articles electrolytically.--Electro-engraving Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$26 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Under the greenwood tree; a rural painting of the Dutch School; with an etching Author: H. Macbeth-Raeburn, and a map of Wessex
    ~$24 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Photo-engraving art. Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$30 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Hoole Machine and Engraving Works : Catalogue No. 79 Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$24 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Mount Auburn illustrated. In highly-finished line engraving, from drawings taken on the spot, Author: James Smillie. With descriptive notices by Cornelia W. Walter
    ~$26 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Ormsby's Bank Note Engraving Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$28 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    An essay on the invention of engraving and printing in chiaro oscuro, as practised Author: Albert Durer, Hugo di Carpi, &c. and the application of it to the making paper hangings of taste, duration, and elegance
    ~$30 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    French etching from Meryon to Lepère, being a lecture delivered to the Print Collectors' Club Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$36 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Plate printing and die stamping; how to operate a department for copperplate and steel-die engraving and printing Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$34 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Etching A Practical Treatise Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$33 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    An outline of the history of engraving [microform] Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$38 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    The trumpet-major, John Loveday, a soldier in the war with Buonaparte, and Robert his brother, first mate in the merchant service; a tale. With an etching Author: H. MacBeth-Raeburn and a map of Wessex
    ~$32 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Amateur art : oil and water color painting, painting on china, modeling in clay and ware painting, pyrography or burnt wood etching Author: Classic Public Domain
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    The art of wood engraving : a practical handbook Author: Classic Public Domain
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    The origin and antiquity of engraving: with some remarks on The utility and pleasures of prints Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$33 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    A guide to the processes and schools of engraving represented in the exhibition of select prints Author: Classic Public Domain
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    The graphic arts : treatise on the varieties of drawing, painting and engraving in comparison with each other and with nature Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$25 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    Catalogue of exhibition of oil painting, water-color, pastel, miniature, etching and illumination, sculpture, design and crafts work: October eighth to twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and twenty-two. Author: Classic Public Domain
    ~$37 value · PDF Scan · Google Books ↗ · Amazon ↗
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    The half-tone process. A practical manual of photo-engraving in half-tone on zinc, copper, and brass Author: Classic Public Domain
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    Description of a wood engraving illustrating the South American Indians Author: Classic Public Domain
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    The Photo-Engraving Company, New York Author: Classic Public Domain
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    The happy villagers : embellished with an engraving Author: Classic Public Domain
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ZipMyBook Curated Historical Archive

Etching Engraving and Printmaking Book Collection

Discover 125 carefully selected public-domain books about etching engraving and printmaking. This focused archive brings together practical manuals, illustrated references and important historical works in one searchable collection.

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Featured books

  • Paul Revere and his engraving
  • A short history of engraving [and] etching : for the use of collectors and students; with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers
  • A short history of engraving & etching for the use of collectors and students, with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers
  • Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors
  • Modern etching and engraving

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  1. Polygraphice, or, The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, vernishing, japaning, gilding, &c. : in two volumes ...
  2. A short history of engraving [and] etching : for the use of collectors and students; with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers
  3. A short history of engraving & etching for the use of collectors and students, with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers
  4. Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors
  5. History of engraving and etching
  6. Modern etching and engraving
  7. Tools and materials used in etching and engraving; a descriptive catalogue of a collection exhibited in the museum
  8. Fine prints of the year: an annual review of contemporary etching and engraving ..
  9. Catalogue of the masterpieces of engraving and etching : collected by the late General Brayton Ives : to be sold at unrestricted public sale on the dates herein stated
  10. The graphic arts of Great Britain; drawing, line-engraving, etching, mezzotint, aquatint, lithography, wood-engraving, colour-printing
  11. Polygraphice, or, The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming ... : to which is added a discourse of perspective and chiromancy
  12. Exceptional Examples of the Masters of Etching and Engraving : the Print Collection of the Late J. Harsen Purdy, of New York City
  13. Polygraphice, or, The art of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, colouring, and dying : in three books : the like never yet extant
  14. Photo-engraving, photo-etching, and photo-lithography in line and half-tone; also, collotype and heliotype
  15. Masterpieces of engraving and etching collected by the late General Brayton Ives
  16. Catalogue of the loan exhibition of British engraving and etching held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, 1903
  17. Etching, engraving and the other methods of printing pictures
  18. Etching and mezzotint engraving : lectures delivered at Oxford
  19. Aquatint engraving; a chapter in the history of book illustration
  20. Pen pictures and how to draw them : a practical handbook on the various methods of illustrating in black and white for process engraving, with numerous designs, diagrams, and sketches
  21. Researches into the history of playing cards; with illustrations of the origin of printing and engraving on wood ..
  22. Morte d'Arthur, a poem. [Written out and illuminated by Alberto Sangorski. Reproduced by the Graphic Engraving Co. for Chatto & Windus]
  23. Engraving : its origin, processes, and history
  24. The grammar of painting and engraving;
  25. A course in fundamental principles of designing and engraving : a practical self teacher as good as a school, demonstrated and illustrated to the point
  26. Modern letter engraving in theory and practice; a manual for the use of watchmakers, jewelers and other metal engravers ..
  27. Paul Revere and his engraving
  28. Engraving and printing methods, advertisement illustration, technical- and trade-paper advertising, street-car advertising, outdoor advertising, house publications
  29. Drawing & engraving;
  30. The bibliographical decameron; or, Ten days pleasant discourse upon illuminated manuscripts, and subjects connected with early engraving, typography, and bibliography
  31. Etching & etchers
  32. A treatise on wood engraving, historical and practical
  33. The printers' handbook of trade recipes, hints & suggestions relating to letterpress and lithographic printing, bookbinding stationery, engraving, etc. With many useful tables and an index
  34. Etching craft, a guide for students and collectors
  35. The wonders of engraving
  36. Catalogue of the books on bibliography, typography and engraving, in the New-York state library
  37. Catalogue of prints and books, illustrating the history of engraving in Japan. Exhibited in 1888
  38. French portrait engraving of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries
  39. The art of wood-engraving in Italy in the fifteenth century
  40. Engraving for illustration;
  41. Etching in America;
  42. Ars pictoria : or, An academy treating of drawing, painting, limning and etching : to which are added thirty copper plates expressing the choicest, nearest, and most exact grounds and rules of symmetry
  43. The art of drawing and engraving on wood
  44. A descriptive bibliography of the most important books in the English language, relating to the art & history of engraving and the collecting of prints
  45. Ariadne Florentina : six lectures on wood and metal engraving : given before the University of Oxford, in Michaelmas term, 1872
  46. The graphic arts : a treatise on the varieties of drawing, painting, and engraving in comparison with each other and with nature
  47. A brief history of wood-engraving from its invention
  48. Ariadne florentina. Six lectures on wood and metal engraving
  49. Etching and other graphic arts;
  50. Etchers and etching; chapters in the history of the art, together with technical explanations of modern artistic methods
  51. Catalogue of an exhibition of early American engraving upon copper, 1727-1850, with 296 examples by 147 different engravers
  52. Drawing for zinc etching
  53. A history of wood-engraving
  54. Specimens of early wood engraving, being impressions of wood-cuts in the possession of the publisher
  55. The art of engraving : a practical treatise on the engravers' art, with special reference to letter and monogram engraving : specially compiled as a text-book for students and reference book and guide for engravers
  56. Decorative painting : a practical handbook of painting & etching upon various objects & materials for decoration of our homes
  57. The best portraits in engraving
  58. Metal work and etching
  59. From Holbein to Whistler : notes on drawing and engraving
  60. The writing table of the twentieth century; being an account of heraldry, art, engraving & established form for the correspondent
  61. General letter engraving for watchmakers, jewelers and kindred trades : a complete exposition on the art of engraving on metals
  62. Modern wood engraving
  63. The golden age of engraving; a specialist's story about fine prints
  64. Practical engraving on metal : including hints on saw-piercing, carving, inlaying, &c.
  65. A descriptive catalogue of an exhibition of early engraving in America, December 12, 1904 - February 5, 1905
  66. Etching and other graphic arts : an illustrated treatise
  67. Practical instruction in the art of wood engraving
  68. Wood engraving
  69. The Linnet's life : twelve poems with a copper plate engraving to each
  70. Ariadne florentina : six lectures on wood and metal engraving with appendix ; given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas term, 1872
  71. A manual of photo-engraving : containing practical instructions for producing photo-engraved plates in relief-line and half-tone with chapters on dry plate development and half-tone color work
  72. A treatise on etching. Text and plates by Maxime Lalanne. Authorized ed. translated from the 2d French ed. by S.R. Koehler. With an introductory chapter and notes by the translator
  73. About etching and etchers; or, Short talks about the graphic arts, artists and some of their latest productions. Illustrated
  74. The masters and master-pieces of engraving
  75. The writing table of the twentieth century; being an account of heraldry, art, engraving, and established form for the correspondent
  76. Drawing & engraving : a brief exposition of technical principles & practice
  77. Metallographic etching reagents: I, for copper
  78. Practical hints on painting, composition, landscape, and etching
  79. The Jewelers' School of Engraving
  80. Mount Auburn illustrated : in highly finished line engraving, from drawings taken on the spot
  81. The art of graueing, and etching, wherein is exprest the true way of graueing in copper. Allso the manner & method of that famous Callot, & Mr. Bosse, in their seuerall ways of etching
  82. Photo Engraving Co. : engraving for all purposes
  83. Calico engraving : a practical text-book for students, designers and all engaged in the textile industry
  84. Green-wood illustrated, In highly finished line engraving
  85. The poems, etc., of Richard James, B.D. (1592-1638). Now for the first time collected and edited, with introduction, notes and illustrations and an etching
  86. The history of engraving from its inception to the time of Thomas Bewick
  87. The masters of wood-engraving
  88. The British school of etching, being a lecture delivered to the Print collectors' club
  89. Sculptura, or, The history and art of chalcography, and engraving in copper : with an ample enumeration of the most renowned masters and their works : to which is annexed, a new manner of engraving, or mezzotinto
  90. A complete treatise on artistic retouching, modeling, etching, art and nature, art and photography, character, chiaroscuro, composition, style and individuality
  91. Modern etching and their collectors
  92. Lectures on the art of engraving : delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain
  93. The Master E. S. and the'Ars moriendi'; a chapter in the history of engraving during the XVth century
  94. A treatise on etching
  95. Some practical hints on wood engraving for the instruction of reviewers and the public
  96. The Master E.S. and the 'Ars moriendi'; a chapter in the history of engraving during the XVth century, with facsimile reproductions of engravings in the University Galleries at Oxford and in the British Museum
  97. Metallographic Etching Reagents: III: For Alloy Steels
  98. Considerations on engraving
  99. South London. A new ed., with an etching by Francis S. Walker
  100. Eugène Delacroix. One cut in four colours, 17 drawings on superfine unglazed art paper, 31 tinted illus. and 1 engraving
  101. The history of wood-engraving in America
  102. Metallographic etching reagents: II, for Copper Alloys, Nickel, and the Alpha Alloys of Nickel
  103. The process and practice of photo-engraving
  104. The manufacture of metallic articles electrolytically.--Electro-engraving
  105. Under the greenwood tree; a rural painting of the Dutch School; with an etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn, and a map of Wessex
  106. Photo-engraving art.
  107. Hoole Machine and Engraving Works : Catalogue No. 79
  108. Mount Auburn illustrated. In highly-finished line engraving, from drawings taken on the spot, by James Smillie. With descriptive notices by Cornelia W. Walter
  109. Ormsby's Bank Note Engraving
  110. An essay on the invention of engraving and printing in chiaro oscuro, as practised by Albert Durer, Hugo di Carpi, &c. and the application of it to the making paper hangings of taste, duration, and elegance
  111. French etching from Meryon to Lepère, being a lecture delivered to the Print Collectors' Club
  112. Plate printing and die stamping; how to operate a department for copperplate and steel-die engraving and printing
  113. Etching A Practical Treatise
  114. An outline of the history of engraving [microform]
  115. The trumpet-major, John Loveday, a soldier in the war with Buonaparte, and Robert his brother, first mate in the merchant service; a tale. With an etching by H. MacBeth-Raeburn and a map of Wessex
  116. Amateur art : oil and water color painting, painting on china, modeling in clay and ware painting, pyrography or burnt wood etching
  117. The art of wood engraving : a practical handbook
  118. The origin and antiquity of engraving: with some remarks on The utility and pleasures of prints
  119. A guide to the processes and schools of engraving represented in the exhibition of select prints
  120. The graphic arts : treatise on the varieties of drawing, painting and engraving in comparison with each other and with nature
  121. Catalogue of exhibition of oil painting, water-color, pastel, miniature, etching and illumination, sculpture, design and crafts work: October eighth to twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and twenty-two.
  122. The half-tone process. A practical manual of photo-engraving in half-tone on zinc, copper, and brass
  123. Description of a wood engraving illustrating the South American Indians
  124. The Photo-Engraving Company, New York
  125. The happy villagers : embellished with an engraving

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