[Rarebooks] FS: 1881 Hammerton's Etcher's Handbook

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: The Etcher's Handbook.

By Philip Gilbert Hamerton.
Published in London by Charles Roberson & Co. and Boston; Roberts Brothers
in 1881. 3rd edition.

DISCUSSION: "Giving an account of the old processes, and of processes
recently discovered". A very nice copy of a standard Victorian study of
the technique of etching. Hamerton, an artist himself, discusses the
medium as a means of artistic expression as well as its' myriad variations
and method. The text is illustrated with six etchings which illustrates
points the author is making.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1834–1894), was an English artist and art
critic and author. "Discovering after a time that he was more suited to
art criticism than painting, he moved to the area his wife came from, in
France, where he produced his Painter's Camp in the Highlands (1863),
which was very successful and prepared the way for his standard work on
Etching and Etchers (1866). In the following year he published
Contemporary French Painters, and in 1868 a continuation, Painting in
France after the Decline of Classicism. He had by now become art critic to
the Saturday Review, which necessitated frequent visits to England,
forcing him to give it up. He proceeded (1870) to establish an art journal
of his own, The Portfolio, a monthly periodical, each number of which
consisted of a monograph upon some artist or group of artists, frequently
written and always edited by him. The discontinuation of his painting gave
him time for writing, and he successively produced The Intellectual Life
(1873), perhaps the best known and most valuable of his writings; Round my
House (1876), notes on French society by a resident; and Modern Frenchmen
(1879), admirable short biographies. In 1882 he issued a finely
illustrated work on the technique of the great masters of various arts,
under the title of The Graphic Arts, and three years later another
splendidly illustrated volume, Landscape, which traces the influence of
landscape upon the mind of man. His last books were: Portfolio Papers
(1889) and French and English (1889). In 1891 he removed to the
neighbourhood of Paris, where he died suddenly in Boulogne-sur-Mer,
occupied to the last with his labours on The Portfolio and other writings
on art."

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 5"x7.5", xi + 98 pages, plus 12 original etchings.
With- a 38-page illustrated catalog of art supplies by Charles Roberson &
Co. Publisher's dark brown cloth with gilt titles and black rules.

CONDITION NOTES: Light soil, wear at the spine head and base, hinges
cracked but tight.

PRICE: $65 -

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