Engravings And Their Value

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Excerpt from Engravings and Their Value: A Guide for the Print Collector The Valuation of Engravings, if it is to be accomplished satisfactorily, requires great technical knowledge and a thorough acquaintance with the market. NO amount of book-learning can ever compensate for a deficiency in practice, and the following pages are not written with the Object of promoting an impossibility. That the information contained in them may be useful in many respects, I do not, however, doubt. As a rule, the works of living engravers have not been noticed, since the judgment on their labours yet remains to be pronounced. I may conveniently mention here that that excellent and indeed indispensable work Of reference known to all collectors as Bryan's Dictionary, is specially noticed under the head of basan (f.) page 83, post. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Engravings and Their Value: A Guide for the Print Collector The Valuation of Engravings, if it is to be accomplished satisfactorily, requires great technical knowledge and a thorough acquaintance with the market. No amount of book-learning can ever compensate for a deficiency in practice, and the following pages are not written with the object of promoting an impossibility. That the information contained in them may be useful in many respects, I do not, however, doubt. As a rule, the works of living engravers have not been noticed, since the judgment on their labours yet remains to be pronounced. I may conveniently mention here that that excellent and indeed indispensable work of reference known to all collectors as Bryan's "Dictionary," is specially noticed under the head of "Basan (F.)" page 83, post. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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