Author: Matilda WRENCHPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
The Charcoal Burners: Or the Grateful Artist. Translated from the German by M. W.
Author: Matilda WRENCHGeneral catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed booksPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British LibraryThe British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, 1881-1900
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
The Restoration of Engravings, Drawings, Books, and Other Works on Paper
Author: Max SchweidlerPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892368358
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Ever since its original publication in Germany in 1938, Max Schweidler's Die Instandetzung von Kupferstichen, Zeichnungen, Buchern usw has been recognized as a seminal modern text on the conservation and restoration of works on paper. To address what he saw as a woeful dearth of relevant literature and in order to assist those who have 'set themselves the goal of preserving cultural treasures, ' the noted German restorer composed a thorough technical manual covering a wide range of specific techniques, including detailed instructions on how to execute structural repairs and alterations that, if skilfully done, can be virtually undetectable. By the mid-twentieth century, curators and conservators of graphic arts, discovering a nearly invisible repair in an old master print or drawing, might comment that the object had been 'Schweidlerized.' This volume, based on the authoritative revised German edition of 1949, makes Schweidler's work available in English for the first time, in a meticulously edited and annotated critical edition. The editor's introduction places the work in its historical context and probes the philosophical issues the book raises, while some two hundred annotati
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