Lot Essay
Frank Short became the President of the Royal Society of Etchers, and is best remembered for transposing J.M.W. Turner's Liber Studiorum into print form.
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Evelyn (John): Sculptura; or the History and Art of Chalcography, and Engraving in Copper, second edition, 8vo, for J. Payne, 1755 [cf. Lowndes 767], with a 1p. a.l.s. tipped in on front free endpaper, dated Sept. 1897, by Holroyd Chaplin to Frank Short: 'a classic work on the art in which you are so distinguished', engraved portrait, one plate, one folding mezzotint plate (lightly browned), modern calf (lightly rubbed). -- [Gilpin (William)]: An Essay Upon Prints, 8vo, for J. Robson, 1768 [cf. Lowndes 895] (title lightly browned, light damp-staining to lower margin throughout), early 19th century half calf (rubbed) -- Yorke (F.R.S.) and Frederick Gibberd: The Modern Flat, 4to, [1937], plates, illustrations, original cloth; and seven others, the majority on modern architecture. (10)