American Graphic Art

NEW EDITION REVISED AND ENLARGED With Illustrations That of the reproductive graphic arts as a whole remained to be told. There are such monographs as W. J. Idintons exceIIent and partly polemical record of American wood-engraving and Ripley EZitchcocks very useful volume on etching in the United States, both published in the eighties of the last century. There is, too, D. McN. Stauffers alphabetical record of our engravers on copper, an invaluable book of reference. But the present work is the only connected and comprehensive account of American graphic art, from the early products, of such a strong historical interest, to the most recent efforts at original expression, as wc see them in the present revival of painter-etching, and in the individual adoption of the wood-block and the Iithographic stone. The abject is to group scattered facts in a brief but clear review of the whale field of American graphic art. It is not intended to present a detailed list including every artist who may have practised any of these arts in this country......