John Baptist Jackson: 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut

Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1962. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Ink notation from previous owner on fep. Cover has slight wear and soiling.. xii, 183 p. Includes: illustrations, index, bibliography. Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 222. Index to Plates. Many illustrations in color. The author was the Curator of Graphic Arts of the Museum of History and Technology of the Smithsonian Institution. From Wikisource: "JACKSON, JOHN BAPTIST (1701 1780? ), wood-engraver, born in 1701, is stated to have been a pupil of Elisha Kirkall. Some cuts to an edition of Dryden's Poems in 1717 bear Jackson's initials. About 1726 Jackson went to Paris, where he was employed on engraving vignettes and illustrations for books, working under the well-known wood-engraver, Papillon. Jackson went to Rome about 1731, and shortly afterwards removed to Venice. At Venice Jackson engraved a fine title-page to an Italian translation of Suetonius's Lives of the Caesars (1738), and also devoted himself to a revival of engraving in colors or chiaroscuro, by the superimposition of a number of different blocks. After twenty years on the continent Jackson returned to England, and started a manufactory of paper-hangings, printed in chiaroscuro, the first of its kind in England."