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1 (Anderson, Alexander) Lossing, Benson. J. A MEMORIAL OF ALEXANDER ANDERSON, M.D., THE FIRST ENGRAVER OF WOOD IN AMERICA. READ BEFORE THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY, OCT. 5, 1870.
New York Printed for the Subscribers 1872 small 4to. contemporary half-red morocco, spine gilt, five raised bands, top edge gilt. Portrait frontispiece; (vi), 107 pages
First edition. With 38 plates and other illustrations in text. A scarce and interesting work, well illustrated with examples of Anderson's ouevre. Bewick was avowedly a seminal influence and several of the plates show Anderson's engravings after Bewick. An Appendix contains an autobiographical sketch of Anderson (1775-1870) written in 1848 at the age of 73. Blank top portion of half-title excised, appendix a little spotted.
Price: $ 460.00 other currencies Order nr. 80863

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2 (Anderson, Alexander) Pomeroy, Jane R. ALEXANDER ANDERSON, 1775-1870, WOOD ENGRAVER AND ILLUSTRATOR, AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY.
3 Volumes New Castle, DE and Worcester, MA Oak Knoll Press and the American Antiquarian Society 2005 8.5 x 11 inches hardcover w/ slip case 2600 pages
First Edition. This three volume, comprehensive bibliography focuses on the important American wood engraver, Alexander Anderson (1775-1870). The author has selected over 1,000 of Anderson's engravings to illustrate this major bibliography. This work begins with a well written and researched biography of Anderson. There are over 2,322 entries. By the early nineteenth century, Alexander Anderson was recognized as this country's preeminent illustrator. Called the father of wood engraving in America, and one of its masters, his prodigious work filled publications of every kind: separate prints, almanacs, fiction, travel, children's books, poetry, Bibles, religious tracts, medical texts, and broadsides. He is noted for his warm and often slyly humorous depictions of children in the large number of juvenile publications that he illustrated. The growing number of wood engravers and illustrators who followed Anderson owed a debt to his skill and universally acclaimed artistic sense. He set a standard for successors who worked in the medium he had introduced.

This study names and analyzes the publications where Anderson's work can be found. There are three indices provided, one of authors and titles, a second of printers, publishers and booksellers, and a third of artists and engravers. Libraries, museums, book collectors and dealers, and all those interested in graphic arts will be able to identify Anderson's work and add to the history of American nineteenth-century book illustration. No understanding of American illustration is complete without an examination of Anderson's appealing and masterly engravings.

Co-published with The American Antiquarian Society.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 88121

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3 Auchincloss, Kenneth NEW YORK REVISITED
Illustrations by Gaylord Schanilec. New York The Grolier Club 2002 7.5 x 11.5 inches hardcover, slipcase 44 pages
In 1915, The Grolier Club published New York with color wood engravings by Rudolph Ruzicka. That book evoked the city in a period of rapid, remarkable change. In New York Revisited, Ken Auchincloss traces the evolution of New York in the twentieth century. Along with the city's enormous physical and social transformations, up to and including the events of September 11, 2001, Ken conveys the continuity of spirit and character of the "New York accent."

Two-and-a half years in the making, New York Revisited is illustrated by Gaylord Schanilec, the foremost contemporary artist in color wood engraving. The engravings include the Empire State building, Chrysler Building from Lexington Avenue, 230 Park Avenue, Grand Central subway station, White Horse Tavern, Times Square, the World Trade Center (vignette), and Strawberry Fields.

One of 250 signed and numbered copies, designed and printed by the artist at his press, Midnight Paper Sales.
Price: $ 500.00 other currencies Order nr. 106646

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4 (Bewick, Thomas) Aesop FABLES OF AESOP, AND OTHERS, WITH DESIGNS ON WOOD
Newcastle Printed by E. Walker for T. Bewick and Son 1823 8vo. mid-nineteenth century full diced calf xxiv, 376 pages
Second edition copy from a limited edition of 1000. An illustrated version of the classical Aesop's Fables, with illustrations by the English wood engraver Thomas Bewick (1753-1828). This is a Demy copy. (See Roscoe, 1953, 165-170). Recased, preserving original calf binding. Free endpaper with archival paper repairs along edges. Occasional spotting and some of the page corners bent inward. Signature by previous owner in brown ink on the free front endpaper. Well-preserved copy.
Price: $ 550.00 other currencies Order nr. 75652

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5 (Bewick, Thomas) Tattersfield, Nigel THOMAS BEWICK, THE COMPLETE ILLUSTRATIVE WORK
3 volumes. New Castle, Delaware and London Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2011 7.5 x 10.75 inches Hardcover, slipcase 1580 pages
Thomas Bewick can be called one of the best English exponents of wood engraving. Born in 1753, he grew up on a small farm, where his chores came second to his interest in the countryside, fishing, and watching birds and animals. These early passions set the stage for his future endeavors.

His early work of cutting soft wood for woodcuts eventually turned into fine detailed designs into hard wood. Beginning in the late 1700s onwards, Thomas illustrated many children's books with one of his most famous books, The History of British Birds. The book contained bird engravings and wood cuts and was an immediate success. Other major publications that helped solidify Bewick's success include The Chillingham Bull, Waiting for Death, A General History of Quadrupeds, and The Fables of Aesop and Others.

Bewick's celebrated histories of quadrupeds and birds of 1790, 1797, and 1804 have obscured the immense number of other books of all denominations illustrated in his modest workshop. From its inception in 1765 until its demise in 1849, the workshop provided illustrations to books, pamphlets, periodicals, and newspapers. The range of illustrations encompassed natural histories, children's storybooks, cookery books, religious tracts, spelling books, mathematical treatises, Bibles, agricultural manuals, local town and county histories, joke books, and even a book of sermons.

Generously illustrated and arranged alphabetically, this book details some 750 titles, over 450 of which are unrecorded in earlier bibliographies. In addition it provides sections on newspaper mastheads, book cover designs, copy-book covers, maps, and large single prints. Whether appealing to the Bewick aficionado, book historian, art historian, provincial printing enthusiast, or admirer of engraving on wood or copper, this will be an indispensable work.

Nigel Tattersfield is the author of Bookplates by Beilby and Bewick, published by Oak Knoll Press and The British Library and John Bewick: Engraver on Wood, published by Oak Knoll Press.

Available outside North and South America from The British Library.
Price: $ 265.00 other currencies Order nr. 102274

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6 (Bird & Bull Press) Bregman, Alvan EMBLEMATA
The Emblem Books of Andrea Alciato. A Leaf Book with Eight New Emblems by Henricus de Nova Villa Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 2007 8vo. quarter morocco, Japanese cloth sides, cloth slipcase, leather spine label, paper label bearing emblem on top board (vi), 128, (14) pages plus leaf
One of 124 bound thus, of 140 copies, with an original leaf. The original leaves included are taken from the 1589 Paris edition of the Alciato emblem book. From the prospectus: "During the late Renaissance, the most famous professor of law in all of Europe was Andrea Alciato (1492-1550) of Milan. ...Almost accidentally, he was responsible for creating a whole new genre of publication consisting of text and image, known as the emblem book. Alciato's emblems were built upon the Latin epigrams he liked to write as a learned pastime. ...Surprisingly, however, there are few books in English devoted to Alciato or to his emblems. No separate overview of Alciato's life and writing is known. In addition to the history of the emblem books, the author provides much personal information that illuminates the character and personality of Alciato. Alvan Bergman has written an illustrated text on the subject usually directed to scholarly specialist, but he has done so in a way that is engaging and informative to the non-specialist reader. " The eight contemporary emblems are illustrated by Wesley Bates's wood engravings are included as an Appendix.
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 94029

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7 (Bird & Bull Press) JOHN DEPOL: A PORTFOLIO OF HIS WOOD ENGRAVINGS.
Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 2012 4to. stiff paper wrappers in clamshell box 15+(1) pages with 22 engravings loosely laid in.
Limited to only 99 numbered copies. A collection of John DePol's (1913-2004) woodcut engravings. Prefatory note by Henry Morris with a note by DePol on his pattern papers. Listing of individuals and corporations for whom engravings in this portfolio were made. Engravings tipped in introductory volume with 22 tipped-in engravings loosely laid in portfolio. This collection of engravings comes from Oak Knoll Press of New Castle, Delaware, and includes many engravings printed by DePol with some signed and dated by him. Also includes a group of prints of Lynd Ward's wood engravings, made for an exhibition at the Barbizon-Plaza Art Gallery in New York. A wood engraving of DePol by Wesley Bates also included.
Price: $ 400.00 other currencies Order nr. 112211

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One of 40 Copies

(Book Club of California) McClintock, Elizabeth CALIFORNIA FLORA
San Francisco Book Club of California 1995 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers which is loosely inserted in a pocket in the left side of the portfolio and with the separate suite of plates inserted in a paper wrapper portfolio which is in turn inserted in the right side of the cloth portfolio, paper spine l (34) pages
One of 40 copies inserted in this specially made portfolio and containing a separate suite of the 13 DePol plates which often have a penciled "D" under the image. The "floral portraits" were printed from John DePol's original wood engravings by the Feathered Serpent Press. In a fashion similar to earlier publications for the Book Club of California, this volume contains twelve sections. Each pair of facing pages contains text on the left describing the properties of the flower illustrated on the right. John DePol's illustrations are typical of his style and show off his ability to balance blackness with movement within each composition. Patterned endpapers. Cover printed in olive, orange and black.
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 93797

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9 (Elston Press) Milton, John L' ALLEGRO AND IL PENSEROSO.
(New Rochelle) Elston Press 1903 small 8vo. cloth-backed boards, later slipcase. 28, (4) pages
Limited to 160 copies printed in red and black on English hand-made paper watermarked with the "cat." (Johnson 23). Taken from the 1645 printing of Milton's work. With highly decorative title page and some initial letters and seventeen illustrations cut on wood from designs by H.M. O'Kane. Bookplate. Small ink ownership stamp. Lacks spine label.
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 79879

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10 FACE TO FACE. TWELVE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN ARTISTS INTERPRET THEMSELVES IN A LIMITED EDITION OF ORIGINAL WOOD ENGRAVINGS.
Great Barrington, MA Penmaen Busyhaus Publications (1985) 4to. 15 printed folders loosely inserted in a cloth case with a spine composed of an engraver's maple wood engraved with "Face to Face" on the spine, paper cover label.
One of 250 numbered copies of which this has "OS" on the colophon page. This copy came from the library of Michael McCurdy, one of the participants. With an introduction by Leonard Baskin and a dedication print by Lynd Ward. Fifteen printed folders containing an engraved self-portrait by the artist which are numbered and signed and laid into the printed folder with a page of text about the artist. With an additional suite of the 13 signed (but not numbered) prints on different paper. The twelve artists are: Fred Becker, Jack Coughlin, John DePol, Fritz Eichenberg, Raymond Gloeckler, James Grashow, Judith Jaidinger, Stefan Martin, Michael McCurdy, Barry Moser, Gillian Tyler, and Herbert Waters. Lynd Ward's previously unpublished print is not signed, due to Ward's death before the project was completed. Harold McGrath printed the blocks, which were cancelled at the end of the press run. Originally issued in a box at $1600. The wrapper-bound edition was issued at $625. Seven of the artists have died since their contribution to this project.
Price: $ 1,150.00 other currencies Order nr. 108932

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11 FACE TO FACE. TWELVE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN ARTISTS INTERPRET THEMSELVES IN A LIMITED EDITION OF ORIGINAL WOOD ENGRAVINGS.
Great Barrington, MA Penmaen Busyhaus Publications (1985) 4to. 12 printed folders with print loosely inserted, 15 loose hand printed broadsides
One of 250 numbered sets. Twelve signed woodcuts with an introduction by Leonard Baskin and a dedication print by Lynd Ward. Twelve printed folders containing an engraved self-portrait by the artist which are numbered and signed and laid into the printed folder with a page of text about the artist. With an additional suite of the 12 signed (but not numbered) prints on different paper. The twelve artists are: Fred Becker, Jack Coughlin, John DePol, Fritz Eichenberg, Raymond Gloeckler, James Grashow, Judith Jaidinger, Stefan Martin, Michael McCurdy, Barry Moser, Gillian Tyler, and Herbert Waters. Lynd Ward's previously unpublished print is not signed, due to Ward's death before the project was completed. Harold McGrath printed the blocks, which were cancelled at the end of the press run. Originally issued in a box at $1600, but only a few were issued with the box as it was cancelled due to it being too expensive to produce. The wrapper-bound edition was issued at $625. With four page prospectus with insert describing this production in detail. Also included is a printed page showing the birth (and death) dates of the artists. Seven have died since their contribution to this project.
Price: $ 650.00 other currencies Order nr. 109177

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12 FACE TO FACE. TWELVE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN ARTISTS INTERPRET THEMSELVES IN A LIMITED EDITION OF ORIGINAL WOOD ENGRAVINGS.
Great Barrington, MA Penmaen Busyhaus Publications (1985) 4to. 13 loose hand printed broadsides on white paper & 13 loose hand printed broadsides on cream-colored paper
Originally printed in a run of 250 numbered sets, the two sets of prints included in this "Out of Series" set are printed on two different types of paper. Included is the original dedication print by Lynd Ward. The original twelve self portraits are engraved by the artist which signed, but not numbered. With an additional suite of the 12 signed (but not numbered) prints on different paper. The twelve artists are: Fred Becker, Jack Coughlin, John DePol, Fritz Eichenberg, Raymond Gloeckler, James Grashow, Judith Jaidinger, Stefan Martin, Michael McCurdy, Barry Moser, Gillian Tyler, and Herbert Waters. Lynd Ward's previously unpublished print is not signed, due to Ward's death before the project was completed. Harold McGrath printed the blocks, which were cancelled at the end of the press run. Originally issued in a box at $1600, but only a few were issued with the box as it was cancelled due to it being too expensive to produce. The wrapper-bound edition was issued at $625. This is for the two sets of prints that are signed. With four page prospectus with insert describing this production in detail.
Price: $ 400.00 other currencies Order nr. 109349

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13 Five older carved wooden stamps that were used to print designs on fabric.
N.P. n.p. n.d. four are 6 by 8 inches and are 1 inch thick.
Five wooden stamps made for fabric with various decorative patterns. "Made in India" sticker attached to two. Each has a unique pattern reflecting Indian artwork.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 109727

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14 (Hesterberg Press) THOMAS BEWICK: THE BLOCKS REVISITED & REDISCOVERED
Evanston, IL Hesterberg Press 2008 large 8vo cloth (i), 69 pages, ii, (iii)
The Blocks Revisited & Rediscovered documents the fascinating story of Thomas Bewick's personal blocks and their historic journey to Chicago in 1942. Many of these blocks found new homes quickly in the Midwest and across America, while others became well-travelled, eventually making their way back to England. The whereabouts of these blocks and their movements over the years have raised questions and a desire to document them for their safe keeping. It is hoped this five-year investigation will begin to provide answers, as over 700 of the 1,350 blocks that came to Chicago are documented here in 35 collections.

The Blocks Revisited & Rediscovered measures 6.5 x 10 inches and contains eighty pages which include fourteen original blocks printed on dampened Rives Heavy-weight paper using a Washington Hand Press. The remaining thirty-five Bewick illustrations were printed using a Vandercook Press from metal engravings reproduced from the Memorial Edition. The text, set in a digital version of Bulmer, was also printed from metal engravings. Color photographs of Bewick's portrait and his toolbox are included as tip-ins, along with a photograph of a group of blocks at the Hesterberg Press.

A numbered edition of ninety copies was bound by Campbell-Logan Bindery, Minneapolis, in a dark green cloth with contrasting green end papers. The spine is gold stamped and the front cover features an inset of a vignette printed from one of Bewick's blocks at the press.
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 101433

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16 Linton, W.J. THE HISTORY OF WOOD-ENGRAVING IN AMERICA.
Boston Estes and Lauriat 1882 4to. original quarter cloth with veneer covered boards, design in gilt on front cover. x, 71+(1) pages.
First edition, limited to 1,000 numbered copies signed by the author. With 20 full-page plates reproducing woodcuts from such artists as Anderson, Linton, Cole, Kruell, Closson and others. Wear along edges and at tips. Small damaged spot on spine.
Price: $ 275.00 other currencies Order nr. 22916

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17 (Midnight Paper Sales) Goodman, Richard THE BICYCLE DIARIES; ONE NEW YORKER'S JOURNEY THROUGH SEPTEMBER 11TH.
Stockholm, WI Midnight Paper Sales 2011 8vo. cloth covered boards, paper cover illustration in color by Schanilec, paper label on spine 107 pages
Limited to 250 numbered copies signed by the author and the illustrator/printer. "Shortly after September 11th, 2001, I began riding my bicycle down from my apartment on Upper West Side of New York city to the World Trade Center disaster site - or as near as I could get to it. I rode down almost every day, in all weather, for about four months. When I came home, I wrote about what I saw." -Richard Goodman

The book contains five full-page colored wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec based on a bike ride with the author down toward the disaster site some ten years later. the text is printed letterpress from metal type, and the images from hand-cut end-grain maple blocks.
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 108200

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Illustrator's Copy

(Press of Appletree Alley) Smith, Bruce DISTANCE.
Lewisburg, PA The Press of Appletree Alley 1996 8vo. decorated paper-covered boards 45+(1) pages
Limited to 125 numbered copies signed by the author. Part of the Bucknell University Fine Editions: A Series in Contemporary Poetry. Author (1908-2003) held the post of consultant in poetry at the Library of Congress, a title changed in 1986 to Poet Laureate. Designed by Bernard Taylor of The Press of Appletree Alley. Hand bound by Dan Rash. Includes an engraving by Michael McCurdy and illustrations by Taylor. Loosely inserted is a T.L.s. from Barney Taylor transferring three of the five copies of this book to Michael McCurdy in payment for his wood engraving.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 114459

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19 (Whittington Press) Pissarro, Lucien PASTORALE, WOOD-ENGRAVINGS BY LUCIEN PISSARRO, WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOHN BIDWELL, & A MEMOIR BY MIRIAM MACGREGOR.
(Lower Marston Farm, Risbury) Whittington Press 2011 8vo quarter cloth, paper-covered boards 24 pages
One of 160 copies made on Batchelors Crown and Sceptre paper, quarter-bound in pre-war Fabriano Ingres printed sides, in a slipcase. In 1965, Orovida, the daughter of Lucien Pissarro who started the Eragny Press with his wife Esther in 1894, presented most of her father's wood-engravings, and his book of proofs, to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. This edition of some of Lucien's finest engravings was printed at the Whittington Press from the original blocks and was issued to mark an exhibition of the work of the Eragny Press at the Ashmolean in early 2011. Four engravings are printed in colour using a technique pioneered by Lucien using pale and subdued colours to build up images of great charm and subtlety. A unique memento of a much loved and collected early private press, whose small editions are increasingly hard to find.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 107017

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20 (Wood Lea Press) Greenwood, Jeremy RAVILIOUS ENGRAVINGS
(Woodbridge, Suffolk) The Wood Lea Press 2008 folio cloth, slipcase 287+(1) pages
Limited to 800 copies bound thus as the standard edition. Introduction by John Craig. Contains well over 400 engravings, many letters, preparatory drawings and associated illustrations. Some of the engravings and illustrations are in color. Also has a list of prints exhibited by Ravilious at the Society of Wood Engravers. As far as is known, these are the only exhibitions at which Ravilious's engravings were shown during his lifetime. The chronology has, among other things, the titles of books which include wood-engravings. Much additional material. Bibliography. Index.
Price: $ 620.00 other currencies Order nr. 99692

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