Whitmans Print-Collectors Handbook

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Gardiner Press

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491_9781406776034

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WHITMANS PRINT-COLLECTORS HANDBOOK REVISED AND ENLARGED BV MALCOLM C. SALAMAN AUTHOR OF THE OLD ENGRAVERS OF ENGLAND, ETC. LONDON 1918 INTRODUCTION TO THE REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION EVERY student of old prints, be he collector or not, who has during late years made use of the British Museum Print Room and who in London could possibly study the work of the old engravers without its aid must have felt he had lost a valued friend when Alfred Whitman died. So kindly and helpful a guide was he, so glad and ready always to give generously of his extensive knowledge, suggesting to the student the right direction for his research, assisting to train the would-be collector in the way he should go, and clearing that way of the inevitable false scents. It was in that kindly spirit, with that helpful purpose, he designed and wrote his Print-Collectors Hand book but that was some twelve years ago, and, since then, there have been many important de velopments in the domain of print-collecting, de velopments with regard to which the Handbook of course, offered no guidance. Although the pub lication had received the encouragement of a wide and continuous appreciation, justifying several editions, Whitman himself recognized the limita tions of his book, and looked forward to amplifying it in accordance with the needs of a new generation, and a greater variety, of collectors. Unhappily, however, a long illness and untimely death pre vented his fulfilling his intention, and consequently PRINT-COLLECTORS HANDBOOK the task of preparing the necessary new edition had to be entrusted to other hands. Messrs. Bell asked me to undertake it, and, be cause I held Alfred Whitman in high regard, and knew how modestly he rated this work of his, I undertook the delicate task, in the hope of making the book as nearly as possible what 1 believed he would have tried to make it had he lived to revise it himself. Perhaps I undertook it too lightly, thinking that it would be only necessary to supple me

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