[Rarebooks] fs: Prints, Printmakers -a selection

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

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[Avery] Sieben-Morgan, Ruth.  SAMUEL PUTNAM AVERY (1822-1904), ENGRAVER ON 
WOOD; A BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHICAL STUDY.

Hartford; self-published:1942. Avery was a famous art collector, dealer and 
philanthropist. He was also, earlier in his life, a talented and successful 
wood-engraver of illustrations and advertisements. This publication was a 
master's thesis project which, although somewhat crude in execution, 
contains much interesting information on his life and work.  9"x11.5", 157 
mimeographed pages, several decent quality b&w illustrations; binder, some 
cover soil; ex-institutional. [21521] $150.00


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[Foster] Green, Samuel Abbott. JOHN FOSTER. THE EARLIEST AMERICAN ENGRAVER 
AND THE FIRST BOSTON PRINTER.

Boston; Massachusetts Historical Society: 1909. 1st Edition. Karpel 
comments- "There are several errors in the volume, which more recent 
scholarship has corrected, but it remains a valuable bibliographical tool, 
particularly for its list of imprints. Green was the first to link Foster 
with the portrait of Richard Mather, so his work is of importance to later 
scholars. An excellently prepared bibliography of Foster's imprints, and a 
short title list of attributions follows the text. A short list of 
engravings and of his imprints ends the book".  Hardcover. 7.5"x10.5", 149 
pages plus 12 b/w plates with 13 illustrations. Light cover wear, spine 
head and base chipped; slight tear at spine head. Ex-Long Island Historical 
Society with bookplate, blindstamp and deaccession stamp, [00438] $75.00


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[Greene Collection] Wolf, Alice. THE EDWARD B. GREENE COLLECTION OF 
ENGRAVED PORTRAITS AND PORTRAIT DRAWINGS AT YALE UNIVERSITY.

New Haven: 1942. Edition limited to 500 copies. "The Greene Collection 
includes European engraved portraits and portrait drawings from the 
sixteenth to the nineteenth century, with the German sixteenth century and 
the French engravings of the seventeenth century best represented" (jacket 
blurb). Theodore Sizer, who wrote the Preface, notes- "an attempt has been 
made to elucidate the less obvious details. Armorial bearings and symbolic 
devices have been interpreted; poetical and explanatory inscriptions, 
except those in French, have been translated in full." There is a 
cross-index of engravers.   Hardcover.  9.5"x12.5", 141 pages plus 35 
plates with 44 b&w illustrations, dj remnant; bookplate removed. [21524] 
$125.00


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Schretlen, M.J. & M.J. Friedlaender. DUTCH AND FLEMISH WOODCUTS OF THE 
FIFTEENTH CENTURY.

Boston; Houghton Mifflin Company: 1925. The author writes- "it (is) strange 
that so little attention should have been paid to the Dutch woodcuts of the 
15th century... the art of woodcutting of that period flourished in a very 
remarkable and characteristic way in the Netherlands. It was a living art 
in the truest sense of the word, and though it appears to have originated 
directly from the art of miniatures... it still reveals an intense life of 
its own everywhere." The only serious study of the subject prior to this 
one was Conway's in 1884 which, as Schretlen points out, has the 
unforgivable defect (for a book about prints) of lacking any 
illustrations!  Hardcover. 9.5"x13", viii + 71 pages, plus 84 b/w plates. A 
fine, bright, clean, crisp copy. [00251] $200.00

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