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Title: A short history of engraving (and) etching : for the use of collectors and students; with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Hind, Arthur Mayger, 1880-1957
Subjects: Engravers Engraving Etchers Etching
Publisher: London : A. Constable
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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s in the manner of this school, and distinctly inferior books: ... ... 1 -i, • » ■ Monte Sancfo to the preceding m technical power, are the illustrations to Antonio ^i ^/,;^ ^^^^.Bettinis Monte Sancto di Dio, 1477, ^d Landinos Dante of 1481, Landinosboth of which were published by Nicolas Laurentii. The former Dante, 1481.is one of the earliest instances known where the copper-plates usedfor book illustration were printed directly on to the page of text.^ Ofthe Dante illustrations, which were engraved after designs by Botticelli,* ^ See A. Warburg, Riv. dArtc, iii. (1905), July. - Again in 1498 he is mentioned as renting a goldsmiths shop with Tommaso and Antonio (sonsof his late brother Stefano). Cf. H. P. Home, Botticelli, 1908 (pp. 77-86). ^ Cf. pp. 30, 33, 65, 70, 96, 119. • Either adapted from those at Berlin and in the Vatican, or more probably based on an earlier series now lost. 48 THE EARLIEST ENGRAVERS and never completed (they embrace the first nineteen cantos of the
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