Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: Engraving on glass promises immense expressive potential, manipulating light as no other medium. Whistler writes: "We all crave light, feast on it every day, utterly depend on it, and dread total darkness as equivalent to blindness...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: First edition.Table of contents, list of plates, list of illustrations in the text, acknowledgments, endnotes, bibliography, index. 17 color, 25 black and white plates, black and white illustrations throughout text. A biography of an English artist whose work included book illustration...read more