A History of British Wood Engraving

Tunbridge Wells, Kent [UK]: Midas Books, 1978. NEW in a bright and shiny NEW dust jacket. PERFECT condition. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO fading. NOT a library discard. Square and tight. Sharp corners. Pages are fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. Over 400 illustrations. Includes biographical notes on 85 artists including John Buckland-Wright, Ralph Chubb, Edward Gordon Craig, John Farleigh, Robert Gibbings, Eric Gill, Joan Hassall, Blair Hughes-Stanton, David Jones, Lynton Lamb, Clare Leighton, John Nash, Paul Nash, Agnes Miller Parker, Lucien Pissarro, Monica Poole, Eric Ravilious, and Reynolds Stone. Index. Bound in the original gilt-stamped boards. From the dust jacket: "A comprehensive study of one of Britain's most influential schools of art, and of its birth and development from its international forebears. Commencing with Palaeolithic engraving, influencing the wood engraving of Henry Moore, Leon Underwood, Gertrude Hermes and Blair Hughes-Stanton. Early Chinese engraving beginning with stone pictures to the Diamond Sutra and Tripitaka prints which were the forerunners of the black line tradition. The root sources of Egyptian, Greek and Etruscan engraving illuminating the styles of Eric Gill, Robert Gibbings, John Buckland-Wright, John Farleigh and Clare Leighton. Durer and Holbein and the formschneider engravers of the Danube School are closely studied as source influences on the work of Edward Gordon Craig, Eric Ravilious and Lucien Pissarro. The double tap root of 19th and 20th century black and/or white line engravers is clearly mapped. The remarkable contemporary revival of the white line school arising from the precursors William Blake and Thomas Bewick is described in detail with the Nash brothers and Wadsworth to the living and younger generation." Oversize Hardcover. 9" wide by 11" tall. This large, heavy book may require SUBSTANTIAL extra postage for international shipments, but only the standard charge for priority or media mail.. First Edition Thus. Oversize Hardcover. New/New dust jacket. 407pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.