Kolbe & Fanning
Auction 165 3 Dec 2022
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Deluxe Edition Engraver's Line
Hessler, Gene. THE ENGRAVER'S LINE. AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PAPER MONEY & POSTAGE STAMP ART. Port Clinton, 1993. Small 4to, original brown leatherette, lettered in silver; jacket. x, 437, (1) pages; illustrated; added frontispiece of finely engraved American Bank Note Company vignettes with a facing leaf of descriptive text; tipped-in proof engravings by Gary Chaconis, Thomas Hipschen and Kenneth Kipperman. Signed and numbered by the author on the title. Fine. Number 53 of 63 deluxe copies. A highly useful work featuring an important section comprising biographies of American bank note engravers, rarely acknowledged in the standard encyclopedias, and histories of artists, sculptors and engravers. Included is "A Brief History of Engraving in America." An extensive work, useful for research relating to ephemeral and other publications involving the enumerated entities. Kolbe 261.
Estimate: 150 USD
Hessler, Gene. THE ENGRAVER'S LINE. AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PAPER MONEY & POSTAGE STAMP ART. Port Clinton, 1993. Small 4to, original brown leatherette, lettered in silver; jacket. x, 437, (1) pages; illustrated; added frontispiece of finely engraved American Bank Note Company vignettes with a facing leaf of descriptive text; tipped-in proof engravings by Gary Chaconis, Thomas Hipschen and Kenneth Kipperman. Signed and numbered by the author on the title. Fine. Number 53 of 63 deluxe copies. A highly useful work featuring an important section comprising biographies of American bank note engravers, rarely acknowledged in the standard encyclopedias, and histories of artists, sculptors and engravers. Included is "A Brief History of Engraving in America." An extensive work, useful for research relating to ephemeral and other publications involving the enumerated entities. Kolbe 261.
Estimate: 150 USD