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Page 172 - At the end of the seventeenth, and beginning of the eighteenth centuries...
Page 182 - BROMLEY (HENRY).— A Catalogue of engraved British Portraits, from Egbert the Great to the present time...
Page 185 - Regalia; as also, Chalcographiana, or the Printseller's Chronicle and Collector's Guide to the Knowledge and Value of Engraved British Portraits.
Page 176 - Sculptura, or the History and Art of Chalcography and Engraving on Copper, 1662; Silva, or a Discourse of Forest Trees, <lc., 1664; and his Mémoire (first published in 1818).
Page 179 - Idée générale d'une collection complette d'estampes. Avec une dissertation sur l'origine de la gravure et sur les premiers livres d'images, Leipzig, 1771.
Page 329 - Essai sur l'origine de la gravure en bois et en tailledouce, et sur la connoissance des estampes des xv" et xvie siècles, où il est parlé aussi de l'origine des cartes à jouer et des cartes géographiques; suivi de recherches sur l'origine du papier de coton et de lin ; sur la calligraphie depuis les plus anciens temps jusqu'à nos jours, sur les miniatures des anciens manuscrits, sur les filigranes des papiers...
Page 187 - An Essay on the utility of collecting the best works of the ancient engravers of the Italian school; accompanied by A Critical Catalogue with interesting anecdotes of the engravers, of a chronological series of rare and valuable prints, from the earliest practice of the art in Italy to the year 1549, now deposited in the British Museum and Royal Academy, in London, by George Cumberland.
Page 330 - Le Livre d'or des métiers. Histoire de l'imprimerie et des arts et professions qui se rattachent à la typographie...
Page 242 - The manner in which type is printed is so well known that it is only necessary to say that...
Page 178 - A Chronological Series of Engravers from the Invention of the Art to the Beginning of the present Century. Cambridge, 1770, 12mo.