"A complete and fully illustrated description of etching, drypoint, and soft-ground etching aquatint..."-- from title page.
Contents:
Essentials --
The plate --
Grounds and "grounding" the plate --
Points, scrapers, burnishers and gravers --
Mordants --
List of materials and tools --
Plan of an etching room --
Methods of biting --
Printing --
Additional work--mistakes and their remedy --
Transferring--"negative" and "relief" etching --
Soft ground, aquatint, and the pen method --
Daypoint and mezzotint --
Printing papers --
Flattening and mounting --
Mildew and restoring --
The medium in relation to the artist's idea --
A brief survey of etchers up to the year 1800 --
Dürer and Lucas van Leyden --
Rembrandt and Van Dyck --
Goya --
British etchers of the nineteenth century --
Meryon and the French revival --
Haden and whistler --
The moderns --
Personal notes by eminent etchers on their methods.