Steel-Engraved Book Illustration in England

by Basil Hunnisett

$35 · Offered by The Lawbook Exchange

Hunnisett, Basil. Steel-Engraved Book Illustration in England. Boston: David R. Godine, 1980 . xvi, 263 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt stamped spine, fine in fine dust jacket. Internally clean. 35. * An assessment of the development, production, and eventual decline of steel engraving as a major book illustration medium in nineteenth-century England. Hunnisett examines the artistic and commercial impact of the medium, exploring the intricate mechanics of

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