A History of Wood-Engraving
By Douglas Percy Bliss
With One Hundred and Twenty Illustrations


 

Publisher: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1928 first edition.  Bound in cream buckram over bevelled boards, with titles in gilt on the spine and embossed vignette of the  wood engraver's tools within a laurel leaf border. the spine and board edges are slightly darkened and there are some light marks to the cloth.  Light scattered foxing to the half-title, otherwise clean and bright and tight in its binding.

This handsome book is a comprehensive study of the art of the woodcut from ita earliest times up to the late 1920s when the book was published.  Many artists worked in this form, among them Albrecht Dürer, William Blake, Thomas Bewick, the Dalziel brothers, Robert Gibbings, and many more. These artists are represented here, along with the many anoymous artists who produced illustrations for books and chapbooks in the 18th and 19th centuries.  The 120 illustrations are crisp and clear.

Small quarto, 25.5 cm (10 inches) tall, xvi, 263 pages.
 

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