The art-exemplar
Subtitle: a guide to distinguish one species of print from another, with pictorial examples and written descriptions of every known style of illustration whether executed on gold, silver, brass, iron, tin, stone ... including all those under the following heterogeneous heads, viz, acrography ... zincography ; to which are added Cautions in collecting prints, Print cleaning and restoring, Tinting and coloring prints, Splitting paper, Of proofs, Of re-touching, Of print-publishing
By: written and compiled by W.J. Stannard.
Contributors: Bridgewater Library
Publisher: the author
Published: 1859
Place of publication: [London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Prints -- Technique.; Color printing.; Illustration of books.
Notes: Most plates are mounted.

Text leaves are printed with 2 or 4 numbered pages of text per leaf, on rectos only, within ornamental border printed in gold, silver and pink.

Illustrations are original plates from other works, each chosen as an example of a graphic printing technique.

MASS copy: One of only 10 copies published; this copy one of the 4 large paper copies. Ex-libris Lord Ellesmere, with the bookplate of the Bridgewater Library. Bound in half red leather and red fine ribbed moiré-grain cloth.