English Woodcuts: 1480-1535 by HODNETT, EDWARD - 1935

Oxford, England: Printed for the Bibliographical Society at the Oxford University Press, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Another fine contribution to the Bibliographical Society series on Illustrated Monographs, this being No. XXII, a true First Edition printed at the Oxford University Press by the Printer to the University. Bound in quarter-cloth and light brown paper over boards in a large quarto format, foxed at spine, some toning to paste-downs front and rear, some sunning along edges to endpapers, else quite bright and clean, clean, unmarked of interior. Deckle-cut fore-edges, gilt top edges. xv, 483 pp. text, 233 figures in black-and-white at book's end, stark and arresting, followed by an Index to those woodcuts. Long Foreword by the author from his perch at Columbia University, then an also lengthy Introduction, a catalogue of woodcuts and with a special focus on WIlliam Caxton, Wynkyn de Worde, Richard Pynson and other "Minor… Read More