The book of fine prints, an anthology of printed pictures and introduction to the study of graphic art in the West and the East / by Carl Zigrosser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zigrosser, Carl, 1891-1975.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Engraving.

Prints.

Penn Provenance:

Zigrosser, Carl, 1891-1975 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 499 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 236 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

[Revised edition].

Manufacture:

New York : Printed in the United States of America by J. J. Little & Ives Company.

Other Title:

Six centuries of fine prints

Place of Publication:

New York : Crown Publishers, [1948]

Notes:

First published in 1937 under title: Six centuries of fine prints.

"Revised edition, Copyright, 1948 by Carl Zigrosser."

"The publication of a new edition of Six Centuries of Fine Prints, under a slightly different title, some ten years after its first issue, has provided an opportunity to correct certain typographical and factual errors, and to incorporate some of the findings of recent scholarship and research. In addition to revisions in the earlier chapters, the section on the Twentieth Century has been almost entirely re-written ..."--Preface to the Revised Edition.

With 555 reproductions of the greatest etchings, lithographs, aquatins, woodcuts and engravings.

Includes annotated bibliography (pages 233-238) and index.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has textual corrections.

Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of Carl Zigrosser and label "With the compliments of the publisher" pasted on front endpaper.

Culture Class Collection brown leather spine with raised ribs stamped in gold and leather corners. Blue cloth binding. Blue and white marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt stained.

OCLC:

14645827