An essay on transparent prints, and on transparencies in general / By Edward Orme.
Alternate Title(s):
Essay on transparencies.
Published / Created:
London : Printed for, and sold by, the Author, Bond Street, the corner of Brook Street; Longman and Co. Paternoster Row; Vernor and Hood, Poultry; White, Fleet Street : Champante and Whitrow, Aldgate : Ostel, Paternoster Row : Rowe and Waller, Fleet Street, and all the booksellers and printsellers, 1807.London : J.G. Barnard, Printer, 57, Snow Hill
Physical Description:
[6], vii, [1], 64, [2], viii pages, [17] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 39 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts Folio A 2024 14Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Dedication to Queen Charlotte and princesses Augusta, Elizabeth, Mary, Sophia, Amelia.With French parallel text.Includes list of subscribers, viii pages at end.BAC Folio A 2024 14: The Abbey copy. Plates are hand-colored, some on recto and verso. Bound in contemporary paper-covered boards with later leather back, with printed title label on front cover.Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860 230
Form/Genre:
Aquatints. | dedications (documents) | Hand coloring. | Engravings.
Contributors:
Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744–1818, dedicatee. | Barnard, J. G. (John George), -1842 printer. | Orme, Edward, 1775–1848, publisher. | White, John, active 1785–1816, bookseller. | Whatman, James, 1777–1843, papermaker. | Champante and Whitrow, bookseller. | Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, bookseller. | Rowe and Waller, bookseller. | Vernor and Hood, bookseller.
