The art exemplar : a guide to distinguish one species of print from another with pictorial examples and written descriptions of every known style of illustration whether executed on gold, silver, brass, iron, tin, stone, wood, leather, steel, zinc, lead, pewter, glass, type metal, ivory, paper, plaister, antimony, fusible metal, etc., to which are added "Cautions in collecting prints," "Print cleaning and restoring," "Tinting and colouring prints," "Splitting paper," "Of proofs," "Of re-touching," "Of print publishing," &c. / written and compiled by S.
By: Stannard, William John
Contributor(s): Stannard, William John [former owner.]
Publisher: [London] : [Stannard and Rae], [1859?]Description: viii, xii, 216 columns : plates (some color) ; 57 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeSubject(s): Prints -- TechniqueDDC classification: 760/.28 LOC classification: NE850 | .S6 1859 Rosenwald CollOwnership: PD copy has a letter affixed from Sir Charles Phipps to Mr Sandars (later name of the author)
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British Museum | Prints and Drawings | Shelves | MM.6.11 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | PD10018558 |
PD copy is interleaved with prints and printed ephemera.
PD copy has a note affixed signed by Harry Sandars stating: "There are only three other copies of the work this size:- namely those possessed by H.M. The Queen, Earl Ellesmere, the Lord Chief Baron Kelly. Six additional copies on small paper completed the number published".
PD copy has a letter affixed from Sir Charles Phipps to Mr Sandars (later name of the author).