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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

by: Faithorne, William, 1616-1691

Publication date: 1662

Topics: Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635, Bosse, Abraham, 1602-1676, Engraving, Etching

Publisher: [London] Published by Willm. Faithorne. And sold at his shop next to ye Signe of ye. Drake, without Temple Barr

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: English

Engraved t.-p

Signatures: A B-D

Wing (2nd ed.)

In Getty copy engraved t.p. trimmed to the border and mounted on leaf

Binding: old calfskin. Boards tooled in blind with two frames of double fillets, fleurons at corners of inner frame. Edges of boards gilt rolled. Page edges sprinkled red & brown

Inscription on front flyleaf: Faithorne's art of Engraveing given to me John Ashby by Mr John Clark bookbinder in ye Year 1693. Monogram stamp in black ink on t.p. and back pastedown apparently consisting of B R E T H L. Theodore Besterman's calligraphic label, signed P.S. (perhaps for Percy John Smith, b. 1882)