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This text is the first major composite listing of designers and engravers of bank notes and postage stamps; there are over 500 illustrations. Some of the most beautiful bank notes were designed or engraved by major American artists such as F.O.C. Darley, Asher B. Durand and others, but their work is rarely mentioned among art studies. All postage stamps, 1847-1993, are listed, including designers, modelers, typographers, and letter and vignette engravers. Dust jacket creased horizontally on front, white spot on rear cover. With the pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. x, 438 pages. cloth, dust jacket. tall 8vo..
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THE ENGRAVER'S LINE: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PAPER MONEY & POSTAGE STAMP ART.
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Bnr Press, Port Clinton, 1993
ISBN 10: 0931960363
ISBN 13: 9780931960369
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8vo. pp: x, 437. First edition. Original publisher's dark green boards with silver lettering at front and spine in original publisher's colour-illustrated dust jacket. Copiously illustrated in black and white. This is a large and heavy item and may require additional cost to post. ISBN: 0931960363 Dust jacket is lightly frayed along top and bottom edges. 2 cm long pieces of tape to outside and reverse of rear cover over a small chip with paper loss. Tail of spine is slightly bumped. Otherwise tight and internally perfectly clean copy. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Seller Inventory # C71312
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