Printmaking in the Age of Rembrandt Unknown - 1981

Boston: Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 1981. Signed, Inscribed. Hardcover. Good+ (soiling to block, light shlefwear to boards, flyleaves in front appear to be cut into a triangle pattern with previous owner's name in marker. Pages prior to title page have tear marks along spine. Pages are otherwise very clean and clear.). Olive green cloth/oblong boards with mounted color illustrations on front, spine, and rear; xlviii, 316 pp. with bw frontis, 6 color plates and bw illustrations throughout. Catalogue from the exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Oct. 28, 1980-Jan. 4, 1981; The Saint Louis Art Museum, Feb. 19-Apr. 12, 1981. Includes an essay by William W. Robinson, "This Passion for Prints": Collecting and Connoisseurship in Northern Europe during the Seventeenth Century. With the title essay, Printmaking in the Age of Rembrandt: The Quest for Printed Tone. Also includes a glossary and an index of artists, among other things.

MFA Publications/Museum of Fine, 1981-06T. hardcover. Good. 1.6535 10.4724 9.0551.

Little Brown & Company. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Boston: Museum of Fine Arts / New York Graphic Society, 1981. (USA) Presumed 1st edition. No markings, Fine as New in price-clipped Fone dust jacket. Olive gren cloth, 316pp, index, B&W reproductions of prints from European artists of the late 16th century. The 17th century Dutch painter's desire to translate painterly values into B&W printmaking is central to the two themes explored by the author. The first theme is the quest for dark tonalities; the second is the quest for more painterly atmostpheric use of line to render light, space and atmosphere. A heavy book. 4.0 JM LVR 201/b1. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".