le concrete detail for the student.
BIGMORE, E. C. and WYMAN, C. W. H. _A Bibliography of Printing._ London,
1880-1886, vol. 1, pp. 201, 365.
The most extensive annotated listing of books relating to printing.
Has a description of Jackson's _Essay_.
BRULLIOT, F. _Dictionnaire des monogrammes._ Munich, 1832-1834, vol. 2,
Nos. 1288, 1352, 1535.
BRYAN, M. _Dictionary of Painters and Engravers._ London and New York,
1904 (1st ed. 1816), vol. 3, p. 99.
The most comprehensive biographical dictionary of artists in the
English language.
BURCH, R. M. _Colour Printing and Colour Printers._ London, 1910, pp.
72-77.
The most comprehensive general survey, but with more than occasional
inaccuracies. There is a lack of sensitivity in art matters. These
comments apply also to the section on Jackson.
CHATTO, W., and JACKSON, J. _A Treatise on Wood-Engraving._ London, 1861
(1st. ed. 1839), pp. 453-457.
The classic work on the subject; scholarly, objective, and
voluminously illustrated. Has the fullest early account of Jackson
and is the basis for most later studies of the artist.
CUST, L. "John Baptist Jackson," _Dictionary of National Biography._ New
York and London, 1885-1900, vol. 29, p. 100.
DE BONI, F. _Biografia degli artisti._ Venice, 1840, p. 499.
DONNELL, EDNA. "The Van Rensselaer Wall Paper and J. B. Jackson-- A
Study in Disassociation." _Metropolitan Museum Studies_, 1932, vol. 4,
pp. 77-108.
The most scholarly study of Jackson's wallpaper career. Shows, by an
examination of styles, that Jackson could not have made the
wallpapers indiscriminately attributed to him.
DUPLESSIS, G. Histoire de la gravure. Paris, 1880, pp. 314-315.
ENTWISLE, E. A. _The Book of Wallpaper._ London, 1954, pp. 65-67, 76.
Contains new information on wallpaper manufacturers in London during
the 18th century, some of it bearing on Jackson.
FRANKAU, J. _Eighteenth-Century Colour-Prints._ London, 1907, pp. 42-46.
Has an appreciative section on Jackson, highly romanticized.
FRIEDLAENDER, M. J. _Der Holzschnitt: Handbuecher der Staatlichen Museen
zu Berlin._ Berlin and Leipzig, 1926 (1st ed. 1917), pp. 224-226.
FUESSLI, J. C. _Raisonirendes Verzeichniss der vornehmsten
Kupferstecher._ Zurich, 1771, pp. 353-354.
FURST, H. _The Modern Woodcut._ New York, 1924, pp. 88, 99.
A fine general survey, although judgments are occasionally dogmatic.
GALLO, R. _L'Incisioni nel '700 a Ven
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