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         Individual courses for print-makers,  in intaglio (etching, drypoint, aquatint)

& block printing, (lino prints, surface printing).    Email 

Books on printmaking:-

Here you will find a list of books on printmaking, some are out of print now, but can still be purchased via Amazon.com,

Etching,  Engraving,     Lithography,    Woodcut,      Printing presses,      Periodicals, Wood engraving.

Printmaking books (these books have been scanned and are available to read at Bracken Press.)  Websites offering printmaking books:-

 ETCHING BOOKS

A History of Engraving & Etching from the 15th Century to the year 1914

Author Arthur M. Hind 111 Illustrations. Dover Publications, Inc. New York.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Art of Etching

A complete & fully illustrated description of etching, drypoint, soft ground etching. Aquatint & their allied arts, together with technical notes upon their own work by many of the leading etchers of the present time.

208 Illustrations

Dover Publications, Inc. New York.

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Buckland-Wright

Etching and Engraving Techniques and the Modern Trend

Line Engraving, Drypoint, Mezzotint, Aquatint, Etching, Woodcutting.

Dover Publications, Inc. New York.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Printsafe

A guide to safe, healthy & green printmaking.

ISBN 1 871831 02 4

By Tim Challis

Publisher Estamp

(Toxicology, absorption via skin, what to use and safe practice.)

 

 

 

Print workshop Directory by Sean Rorke

ISBN -13:978 07136 7518 4

A & C  Black Publishing Ltd.

www.acblack.com

 

 

 

 

 

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Etching by Leonard Edmondson

ISBN 0 442 22235 1

Publisher VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD COMPANY

 

 

 

 

 

 

The complete guide to Prints and Printmaking Techniques and Materials

Edited by John Dawson

Publisher Quill / Phaidon Press Limited.

 

 

 

 

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New ways of Gravure

by S.W.Hayter

Publisher Oxford University Press (1966)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Printmaking

Harvey Daniels

 

ISBN 0 600 36911 0

Publisher  HAMLYN PUBLISHING GROUP LIMITED.

 

 

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 The Encyclopedia of Printmaking Techniques

Judy Martin

ISBN 0 85532 987 4

Publisher Search Press Ltd.

 

 

 

 

 

Artists in Print

an introduction to prints and printmaking by Pat Gilmour

Publisher BBC publications (1981)

 

 

 

 

 

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Printmakers the directory

Editors Anne Desmet & Anthony Dyson

Published by  Royal Society of Painter Printmakers

ISBN 10: 0 7136 7367 7

(I have one mint copy for sale @ £10.00, list price £14.99)

 

 

 

 

 

Definitely out of print, but a very interesting book.

Printed in 1902

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Pprintmaking A complete guide to materials and processes.

ISBN 9781 85669 600 5

Published by Lawrence King Publishing

 

Handbook of Modern British Painting and Printmaking 1900- 1990

Edited by Alan Windsor

Published by Ashgate Publishing

 

ISBN 1 85928 427 2

 

 

 

 

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Other forms of printmaking books below:-

 

 

 

Dictionary of Printmaking Terms

Rosemary Simmons

Publisher A.C.Black

ISBN 0 7136 5795 2

 

 

ENGRAVING

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Women Engravers by Patricia Jaffe

Publisher Virago Press

ISBN 0 86068 225 0

 

 

 LITHOGRAPHY

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Lithographic Prints from Stone and Plate

ISBN 0 8226 0285 7

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

WOODCUT

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Woodcut printmaking

Publisher Thames and Hudson

 

 

 

 

Engravers a handbook for the nineties.

Compiled by Simon Brett for the Society of Wood Engravers

ISBN 1 85183 003 0

 

 

PRINTING PRESSES

 

 

 

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Printing Presses

by James Moran

 

Great book which traces the history of printing presses, small inclusion on Platen Press ( Albion, Columbian etc)

 

ISBN 0 571 08965 8

 

WOOD ENGRAVING

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 Wood Engraving

by George E.Mackley RE

ISBN 0 946095 18 3

Published by Gresham Books

 

A history of Wood Engraving

Albert Garrett

ISBN 0 906223 29 6

Published by Bloomsbury Books

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Wood Engraving 'How to do it'

by Simon Brett

ISBN 978 1 4081 2726 1 £16.99

Publisher A.C.Black

 

 

Websites offering printmaking books:-

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=printmaking+books&tag=yahhyd-21&index=stripbooks&hvadid=37588644031&ref=pd_sl_5jbntdt4ek_e

Periodicals:-

 

Printmaking today.

 

http://www.cellopress.co.uk/

 

 

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