1921-1946 A Collection from The Print Collectors' Club

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First Edition, Illustrated, Limited Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

Eleven volumes. First edition. A collection of publications from The Print Collectors Club, which was established by the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers in the 1920s, as a result of the "Etching Boom" which occurred in Britain and America immediately after the First World War. The club believed that original prints should been seen and valued equally to painting, drawing and sculpture. This set contains: The British School of Etching, 1921. Being a lecture delivered to The Print Collectors' Club by Martin Hardie on July 8th 1921, with a foreword by Sir Frank Short. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eleven plates. Collated complete. French Etchings from Meryon to Lepere, 1922. Being a lecture delivered to The Print Collectors' Club by Campbell Dodgson on June 21st 1922. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eleven plates. Collated complete. Albert Durer: His Life and Work, 1922. Being a lecture delivered to The Print Collectors' Club by T. D. Barlow on November 15th 1922, with notes on watermarks. Illustrated with sixteen plates. Collated complete. British Mezzotints, 1924. Being a lecture delivered to The Print Collectors' Club by Sir Frank Short on November 7th 1924. Illustrated with seventeen collotype plates. Collated complete. Some Reflections on the Art of Thomas Rowland & George Morland, 1928. Limited to five hundred copies, of which this is number three hundred and eighty-two. Being a lecture delivered to The Print Collectors' Club by Selwyn Image on December 13th 1928. Illustrated with twenty-two plates. Collated complete. Charles Keene: Etcher, Draughtsman and Illustrator 1823-1891, 1935. Limited to three hundred and fifty hundred copies, of which this is number three hundred and seven. Being a lecture delivered to The Print Collectors' Club by Frank L. Emanuel on November 25th 1935. Illustrated with a frontispiece and nineteen plates. Collated complete. The Etchings of Sir David Wilkie & Andrew Geddes: A Catalogue, 1936. Limited to four hundred and twenty-five copies, of which this is number one hundred and seventy. Written by Campbell Dodgson. Illustrated with forty-three collotype plates. Collated complete. The Liber Studiorum Mezzotints of Sir Frank Short, 1938. Limited to five hundred and ten copies, of which this is number one hundred and sixteen. Written by Martin Hardie. Illustrated with twenty-four plates. Collated complete. The Mezzotints and Aquatints of Sir Frank Short, 1939. Limited to four hundred copies, of which this is number three hundred and forty. Written by Martin Hardie. Illustrated with sixteen plates. Collated complete. Cartoon Wit and Caricature in Britain, 1944. Limited to three hundred and fifty copies, of which this is number two hundred and ninety-two. Being a lecture delivered to The Print Collectors' Club by Major Alfred A. Longden on March 2nd 1943. Illustrated with thirty-five images across thirty-two plates. Collated complete. Some Drawings of the English School, 1946. Limited to four hundred copies, of which this is number three hundred and twenty-seven. Being a lecture delivered to The Print Collectors' Club by Campbell Dodgson on March 7th 1945. Illustrated with forty plates. Collated complete.