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JOHN W. EHNINGER
Autograph Etchings by American Artists. New York: W.A. Townsend & Company, 1859. 2° (338 x 275mm). 12 clichés-verres with guards (c.105-205mm x c.205-171mm) mounted on card. (Occasional very light soiling in the margins.) Original purple pebble-grain cloth, covers panelled in blind, front cover gilt-lettered, edges gilt (front joint starting, light soiling on endpapers, spine-foot chipped).
FIRST EDITION, ALMOST CERTAINLY THE ONLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN BOOK PUBLISHED WITH CLICHéS-VERRES. The first clichés-verres were probably made by Fox Talbot in 1834 though some claim priority for Tom Wedgwood, but the process was only popularized when re-discovered by Adalbert Cuvelier in 1853. Examples from this period are rare. The artists included are: A. B. Durand, E. Leutze, J. F. Kensett, F. O. C. Darley, J. W. Casilear, E. Johnson, S. R. Gifford, G. C. Lambdin, Geo. Boughton, W. P. W. Dana, L. R. Mignot and J. W. Ehninger. Cf. Becker, 'The American Cliché-Verre' in History of Photography, vol. 3, no. 1, 1979, pp.71-80.
Autograph Etchings by American Artists. New York: W.A. Townsend & Company, 1859. 2° (338 x 275mm). 12 clichés-verres with guards (c.105-205mm x c.205-171mm) mounted on card. (Occasional very light soiling in the margins.) Original purple pebble-grain cloth, covers panelled in blind, front cover gilt-lettered, edges gilt (front joint starting, light soiling on endpapers, spine-foot chipped).
FIRST EDITION, ALMOST CERTAINLY THE ONLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN BOOK PUBLISHED WITH CLICHéS-VERRES. The first clichés-verres were probably made by Fox Talbot in 1834 though some claim priority for Tom Wedgwood, but the process was only popularized when re-discovered by Adalbert Cuvelier in 1853. Examples from this period are rare. The artists included are: A. B. Durand, E. Leutze, J. F. Kensett, F. O. C. Darley, J. W. Casilear, E. Johnson, S. R. Gifford, G. C. Lambdin, Geo. Boughton, W. P. W. Dana, L. R. Mignot and J. W. Ehninger. Cf. Becker, 'The American Cliché-Verre' in History of Photography, vol. 3, no. 1, 1979, pp.71-80.
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