Etchers and Etching: Chapters in the History of the Art Together with Technical Explanations of Modern Artistic Methods

xxxv, 343 pp. A very thorough treatment of the subject, using numerous examples of various techniques. Includes the prefaces from each edition, numerous examples of etchings, plus the following chapters: Of Etchings; Of the Making of Etchings; Of the Collecting of Etchings; Of the Great Etchers; Of Charles Meryon; Of James McNeill Whistler; Of Rembrandt; Of Followers of Rembrandt and Others; Of Durer; Of Van Dyck; Of William Blake; Of Goya and Rops; Of J.M.W. Turner; Of Seymour Haden; Of Modern Men; Of the Materials Necessary for Making an Etching; Of Copper Plates and Other Plates; Of Etching Grounds; Of Grounding and Printing Rollers; Of Etching Needles; Of Scrapers, Burnishers, Roulettes; Of Acids; Of Presses; Of Ink; Of Paper; Of Grounding Plates; Of Drawing on the Plate; Of Biting In; Of Corrections in Biting; Of Re-Grounding; Of Dry Point; Of Sand Paper and Aquatint; Of Mezzotint; Of Colour Etchings; Of Monotypes and Relief Plates; Of Printing; Of Trials and States; Of Publishing Prints; Of the Preservation of Prints; Of the Arrangement of a Print Room; Of Cataloguing; Of Teaching Etching; Finally to Etchers. Extensive index.