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Practical guide to etching and other intaglio printmaking techniques / by Manly Banister.
LIBRA NE1625 .B36 1986
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Banister, Manly, 1914-1986.
- Standardized Title:
- Etching and other intaglio techniques
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intaglio printing--Technique.
- Intaglio printing.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 128 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dover, 1986.
- Summary:
- Detailed illustrated instruction in etching, engraving, aquatint, drypoint, mezzotint -- from preparing plate to mounting print. No better guide for beginners.
- Contents:
- Preparing and grounding the plate
- Needling the plate
- Etching the plate
- Further methods of working the plate
- Paper and the etching press
- Ink and inking the plate
- Printing the plate
- Reworking the plate
- Soft-ground etching
- Aquatint and the creation of tonal passages
- Engraving
- Drypoint
- Mezzotint and metal graphic
- Printing the intaglio plate in color
- Mounting the print for display.
- Notes:
- Reprint. Originally published: Etching and other intaglio techniques. New York : Sterling Pub. Co., 1969.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has receipt laid in.
- ISBN:
- 0486251659
- 9780486251653
- OCLC:
- 13426128
- Online:
- Publisher description
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