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[FINE BINDINGS] -- HAMERTON, Philip Gilbert (1834-1894). Etching and Etchers. London: R. Clay, Son, and Taylor for MacMillan & Co., 1868. FIRST EDITION.
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HAMERTON, Philip Gilbert (1834-1894). Etching and Etchers. London: R. Clay, Son, and Taylor for MacMillan & Co., 1868. 
 
4to (253 x 166 mm). Title printed in red and black, frontispiece etching, 35 etchings or drypoints  (5 double-page, 1 folding). (Very occasional spotting, light offsetting.) Maroon morocco gilt, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt lettering in one compartment gilt decoration in the rest, sides and turndowns gilt, all edges gilt, stamp-signed by Zaehnsdorf (some scuffs to sides). Provenance: Newton Hall, Cambridge (bookplate, initials J.S.).
 
FIRST EDITION, including etchings after famous etchers, including Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Jacques Callot, Samuel Palmer, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and others. 
 
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