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ILAB Library - All You Need To Know About Rare Books and the Antiquarian Book Trade
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[+] More British Map Engravers: A Dictionary of Engravers, Lithographers and Their Principal Employers to 1850
Published since 08 Jun 2011The ultimate guide to the identification of British antique maps and their makers: An illustrated dictionary of over 1,500 members of the map trade in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, of British-born engravers working overseas and foreign engravers working in the British Isles, from the beginnings until the mid 19th century. Included are all the known engravers and lithographers, globemakers and retailers, the principal map sellers and publishers, key cartographers, makers of map-based games and puzzles, but also the remarkable lives of many artists, dealers and publishers, whose fates have been unknown so far.
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[+] More Did This Rare Color-Plate Book Inspire the Six-Month Dental Check-Up?
Published since 14 May 2010Stop! Read this before you go to the dentist. Maybe you decide not to go … Stephen Gertz about George Cruikshank and the pains of the six-month dental check-up.
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[+] More Prints on the Art of Satire
Published since 23 Feb 2010Early satirical prints are collected as important social documents portraying in a comical style people and situations. The exaggerations of the satirical artist, were not just mere recordings of these people and events ...
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[+] More The Paper of Old Prints
Published since 16 Dec 2009In previous blogs I have looked at the subject matter which appears in old prints, as well as the processes used to make them. Another important aspect of old prints is the paper upon which the impressions are made, so today we’ll take a look at this subject.
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[+] More Prints as historical evidence: Lincoln’s deathbed
Published since 16 Dec 2009The assassination and death of Abraham Lincoln on April 14th and 15th, 1865 sent a shock throughout the nation, generating an intense desire by the American public to find out details about this tragedy. Printmakers, both for illustrated newspapers and for separately-issued prints, met this public interest with an outpouring of images. As there was no television nor internet at the time, and as there are few photographs of any of the events surrounding Lincoln’s death, these prints provided the public at that time with their only visual assess to the assassination and its aftermath ...
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[+] More The Color of Old Prints
Published since 16 Dec 2009Many antique prints were initially issued with color, but many have been colored subsequent to their original publication. How does one distinguish between original color and new color? Does it matter? Here is brief guide to what you should know about the color of old prints ...
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[+] More "Proof" Prints
Published since 16 Dec 2009What exactly does it mean when one says a print is a "proof"? While the connotation of this term is clearly positive, it is not always clear what specifically it means. In the world of fine art prints the expression has a quite clear meaning.