The Student’s Book Of Wood-engraving.
£25.00
Publisher
Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons Ltd.
Place
London
Date
1938
Synopsis
(the student's art books).
Item Description
Large 8vo. 9.5 x 7.5 inches. ix + [i] + 93 + [1] pp. Bound in original beige cloth with green titles. Boards sunned, including spine, some browning of flyleaves and foxing of half title; otherwise a very good copy. Name stamp in red on both front endpapers. Illustrated by 15 plates of wood engravings, including frontispiece, paginated in text. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. A student's guide to the techniques by Iain Macnab (1890-1967), Scottish artist and wood-engraver, educated at the Glasgow School of Art, who was influential in the development of the British school of wood-engraving. Well illustrated by the work of Agnes Miller Parker, Clare Leighton, Eric Gill, and others. (Selborne, British Wood- Engraved Book Illustrations 1904-1940).
[Stock No. 29617]
