Martin Hardie — The Etchings, Drypoints and Lithographs by Sir Frank Short

London, The Print Collectors' Club, 1940. First edition. Cloth. A smart limited edition of this lecture on the artworks of British printmaker Sir Francis Job Short. First edition. Limited to four hundred copies, of which three hundred were presented to the Members of the Print Collectors' Club, of which this volume is out of series. With the vanishingly scarce original glassine wrap. Illustrated with sixteen plates. Collated complete. The third volume in this series on the works of Sir Francis Job Short, a British printmaker and teacher of printmaking who revived the practices of mezzotint and pure aquatint, while expanding the expressive power of line in drypoint, etching and engraving. With a catalogue and introduction by Martin Hardie, an English painter, printmaker, writer and museum curator. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original glassine wrapper is also excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Near Fine . Ill.: Sir Frank Short. Near Fine/Fine.