Hamerton,P.G. Etching & Etchers. London, Macmillan... Lot 4100

Hamerton,P.G. Etching & Etchers. London, Macmillan 1868. gr.8°. With 35 original etchings by and after Appian, Callot, Daubigny, Delatre, Dujardin, Haden, Hamerton, Jongkind, Lalanne, Palmer, Rembrandt, Waterloo, etc. XXVI, 354 PP. Olwd. (Somewhat rubbed) with leather, gilt-stamped gilt title label (this with scuff marks) and full gilt edges. London, Macmillan, 1868. Rare first edition of this important work on the history of etching, edited by the English painter-etcher and art critic Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1834-1891). With a typographical dedication to Seymour Haden. Contains the following original etchings, among others: A. Appian "Environs de Rix" (Curtis-Proute1 13, III/IV); Ch.-Fr. Daubigny "Le Bateau-Atelier" (Delteil 111, II); S. Haden, "Bit of River Bank" (Harrington 116, II); J.-B. Jongkind, "Moulins en Holland" (Delteil 14, I/II); S. Palmer, "The early Ploughman" (Lister 9, V/IX); ╔Rembrandt, "Die drei Orientalen" (Seidlitz 118, II).╗ - Some yellowing throughout due to paper; inner hinge chipped.