"A Short History of Engraving & Etching for the Use of Collectors and Students. With Full Bibliography, Classified List and Index of Engravers. With Frontispiece in Photogravure and 110 illustrations in the Text" by A.M. Hind of the Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum. Published by Archibald Constable, London, 1908. First Edition.

Hard boards, original publisher's dark-blue cloth with gold lettering on spine [wear & soiling: see photos], 6" x 9.1/2"; frontispiece facsimile of Durer's copper engraving of "St. George" on heavy paper [original photogravure]; 473 pages; some soiling, very good condition.

Arthur Mayger Hind (1880-1957) was a British art historian and curator, who usually published as Arthur M. Hind or A. M. Hind. He specialized in old master prints, and was Keeper of the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum until he retired in 1945.

Many prints continue to be referred to by the numbers from his catalogue of Italian engravings in the British Museum, a work begun in 1910 and published in expanded form in four volumes in 1948, with another three in 1948. His classic book A Short History of Engraving and Etching (1908) continued to be reprinted for decades. This work is often described by a later curator as "perhaps the most influential general guide ever written to the history of printmaking"

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