Title-pages of four early books in English relating to engraving : also the pages therein which contain the sections on engraving and printing from engraved plates, also the earliest illustration on an English book of an engraving instrument

`In 1911 I had twenty copies printed of a little pamphlet with the following title: "Title-pages of the two earliest books in the English language relating to engraving ...” In this present pamphlet I have printed the contents of the above, and have mentioned two other books. No longer do I claim that they are the earliest English books relating to engraving, but merely that they are early, as it is very possible that others exist which are still earlier of which I have no knowledge. I do not attempt to give bibliographical details, but in each case I first reproduce the title-page and the pages containing the sections on engraving, and then add a few comments. As these references to engraving are all prior to 1600, they are of the greatest of interest to students of the bibliography of that subject. I have also reproduced from The Mysteryes of Nature and Art, by J[ohn] B[ate], London 1634, an illustration of an engraving tool, which is the earliest (so far as I know) appearing in an English book. I have had thirty copies printed for private distribution …’ Preface, signed, H.C. Levis, 40 Egerton Gardens, London, S.W., April, 1916.

Privately printed by H. C. Levis.

The thyrde and last parte of the Secretes of the reuerende Maister Alexis of Piemont .. Englished by Wylliam Warde … 1566. A profitable boke ... taken ovt of Dvtche and englished by L. M. ... 1583 and 1605. The Jewell House of Art and Nature … Hugh Platte … 1594. A Booke of Secrets ... Translated out of Dutch into English, by W. P. ... 1596. (Page [3]).