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CUNDALL, Joseph, 1818-1895 :

A BRIEF HISTORY OF WOOD-ENGRAVING FROM ITS INVENTION.

London : Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1895. First edition. An authoritative guide, with chapters on the early block books, early work in Italy, France, England and Germany respectively, Hans Holbein and the little masters, Thomas Bewick and his followers, the nineteenth century English school, etc. Crown 8vo. (xii),132pp. Illustrations. Original pictorial cloth over bevelled boards; top edge gilt; some very minor rubbing; some spotting of edges and endpapers, but a nice copy.

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