[Rarebooks] FS: 2 Facsimiles of Classic Texts in the Book Arts

[John Howell]

Offered today, 2 classic book arts texts, in modern facsimile:

HULLMANDEL, Charles Joseph (1789-1850).  

The Art of Drawing on Stone.  With a New Introduction by Joan M. Friedman.  

New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1982.  Series: Nineteenth-Century Book Arts & Printing History, No. 7.  

8vo.  10 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches.  x, 92, [4] pp.  Reproduces the original front and rear covers and the engraved title page, 19 plates, partial list of works printed by Hullmantel; text clean, unmarked.  Brown cloth, gilt spine; binding square and tight.  Fine.  
$ 100
FACSIMILE REPRINT; first edition, 1824.  “The most telling feature of The Art of Drawing on Stone is the way in which it was uncompromisingly addressed solely to artists as potential lithographic draughtsmen.”  From Friedman’s Introduction.  Hullmandel was one of the most important figures in the development of British lithography in the first half of the nineteenth century.  He developed a method for reproducing gradations in tones and for creating the effect of soft color washes, which enabled the printed reproduction of Romantic landscape paintings.  

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RINGWALT, John Luther (1861-1913), editor.  

American Encyclopaedia of Printing.  With a New Introduction by Daniel Traister.  

New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1981.  Series: Nineteenth-Century Book Arts and Printing History, No. 21.  

Large 8vo.  10 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches.  xii, 512, [4] pp.  Frontispiece, woodcut figures throughout, folding plate with a facsimile of a page from Gutenberg’s Bible, plates, index; text clean, unmarked.  Brown cloth, gilt spine; binding square and tight, light soiling and shelf wear to edges, else Fine.  
$ 125
FACSIMILE REPRINT, of the 1871 edition.  This well-received Encyclopaedia was reviewed in the Printer’s Circular for March 1871: “Besides innumerable engravings intended to illustrate the especially practical portions of the work, we have a score of full-page illustrations in black and colored inks [reproduced here in black-and-white], prepared in superior style at great expense, to exhibit the growth of the art [of printing] by admirable fac similes of early printing; representations of machinery at different epochs; the processes of type-founding; the combination of colors; lithography; the portraits of the reputed inventors of printing; as well as many other matters.” 

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