The Etcher's Handbook, Roberts Brothers, 3rd Ed., 1881, Good, Hardcover.

Hamerton, Philip Gilbert. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1881. 

English, Third Edition (Revised and Augmented), Good, HC, 12mo, 7 1/2" x 5 1/4", 97 pp.

Third Edition (Revised and Augmented), hardcover in brown leather with gilt stamped decorations, laid-in title page from Charles Roberson & Co.'s Combination Pocket Sketch Book & Palette. Chips to head and tail, some wear and toning, minor interior soiling, starting front interior gutter, ex-libris etching to front pastedown and a laid-in loose image. 97 pp. Includes illustrations by Hamerton. Twenty-seven chapters provide a guide on the printmaking technique called etching, considering old and recent techniques, while many chapters explore the negative and mixed processes, the doctrines and processes of Lalanne, Haden, Bracquemond, and more. A beautifully illustrated book that "[gives] an account of the Old Processes, and of Processes recently discovered" (from the title page).