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INTRODUCTION. Processes and Materials CHAPTER I THE EARLIEST ENGRAVERS. (The Fifteenth Century) CHAPTER II THE GREAT MASTERS OF ENGRAVING : their Contemporaries and immediate Followers. (About 1495-1550) CHAPTER III THE BEGINNINGS OF ETCHING and its Progress during the Sixteenth Century CHAPTER IV THE DECLINE OF ORIGINAL ENGRAVING. The Print-sellers-the great reproductive Engravers of the School of Rubens-the first Century of Engraving in England. (About 1540-1650) "CHAPTER V THE GREAT PORTRAIT ENGRAVERS (about 1600-1750), with some Account of the Place of Portrait in the whole History of Engraving and Etching" "CHAPTER VI THE MASTERS OF ETCHING. Van Dyck and Rembrandt-their immediate Predecessors, and their Following in the Seventeenth Century (About 1590-1700)" CHAPTER VII THE LATER DEVELOPMENT AND DECAY OF LINE-ENGRAVING. (From about 1650) CHAPTER VIII ETCHING IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURIES. The great Italian Etchers-the Archaisers and Amateurs-the Satirists-Goya CHAPTER IX THE TONE PROCESSES I. Mezzotint 2. The Crayon Manner and Stipple 3. Aquatint 4. Colour-Prints CHAPTER X MODERN ETCHING APPENDIX I CLASSIFIED LIST OF ENGRAVERS "Germany, Austria-Hungary, and German Switzerland" The Netherlands Italy France and French Switzerland Spain and Portugal The British Isles America (the United States and Canada) Denmark Swedem and Norway Russia and Finland APPENDIX II GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY I. Bibliographies 2. "Processes, Materials, etc." 3. Dictionaries and General History 4. Various Countries 5. Various Subjects 6. Collections- A. Public B. Private (including Sale Catalogues) 7. Catalogues of Prints after a few of the more important Painters 8. Reproductions APPENDIX III INDEX OF ENGRAVERS AND INDIVIDUAL BIBLIOGRAPHY I. Engravers whose names are known 2. "Engravers known by their Monograms, Initials, etc." 3. Engravers known by their Marks 4. Engravers known by their Dates 5. Engravers known by the Subject or Locality of their principal Works