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Abraham, Mildred K. and Sue Rainey EMBELLISHED WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS: THE WORKS OF AMERICAN ILLUSTRATORS AND WOOD ENGRAVERS, 1670-1880.
Charlottesville Alderman Library 1986 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 48, (2) pages.
Keepsake of an exhibition. Illustrated.
Price: $ 17.00 other currencies Order nr. 105730

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Abrams, George VENETIAN XYLOGRAPHIC AT THE JOHN RYLANDS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, MANCHESTER, ENGLAND
N.P. Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 1995 4to. stiff paper wrappers pp. 66-82.
Offprint from the Yearbook. Nineteen illustrations in the text.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 75434

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Abrams, George. VENETIAN XYLOGRAPHIC UPDATE.
Offprint from Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 1988, 8vo., paper wrappers. pp.43-53. N.P. Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 1988 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers pp. 43-53
Offprint from the Yearbook. Article on three books previously unlisted as having hand-stamped woodcuts. Well-illustrated.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 49424

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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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(Azarian, Mary) Azarian, Mary THE TALE OF JOHN BARLEYCORN OR FROM BARLEY TO BEER.
A traditional English ballad illustrated with woodcuts by Mary Azarian Boston David R. Godine (1982) 4to. half cloth, paper covered boards, dust jacket unpaginated
First edition. Medieval English ballad celebrating beermaking. Illustrated with woodcuts by Mary Azarian. Some rubbing to the dust jacket at the edges.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 105577

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(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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Bewick, Thomas. BEWICK TO DOVASTON, LETTERS 1824-1828.
London Nattali & Maurice 1968 large 8vo. quarter parchment with paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 150 pages plus one additional leaf with a tipped-in plate.
In 1823 the amateur musician and natural historian John F.M. Dovaston (1782-1854) met Thomas Bewick (1753-1828), and the two started a correspondence which continued until Bewick's death. This book contains 30+ letters (here published for the first time) to Dovaston from Bewick and his family. Bewick discusses various matters, sometimes personal, with some interesting material, for ex. Bewick's account of his daughter's objections to some of his engravings. He generally does not "talk shop" (Dovaston was not an engraver). Dovaston's own account of his first meeting with Bewick is included. With ten engravings from British Birds mentioned in the letters and seven tailpieces. The tipped-in plate is printed directly from a Bewick block. Jacket chipped.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 52073

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(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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(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 small 4to. cloth. 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, Bewick 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.
No slipcase.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 108593

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(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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(Bird & Bull Press) WESLEY W. BATES' COMPLETE WOOD ENGRAVINGS FOR THE FORESTERS.
Large-paper proofs suitable for framing. Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 2000 small 4to. plain paper portfolio with title plate to portfolio and individual proofs loosely inserted.
A separate publication of this private press. The wood-engravings by this Canadian artist are quite spectacular.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 100363

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Bliss, Douglas Percy A HISTORY OF WOOD-ENGRAVING.
London Spring Books (1964) small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xviii, 263 pages.
Reprint of the 1928 first edition. Excellent history with 120 illustrations. Jacket shows minor rubbing. Ink inscription.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 3399

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Bliss, Douglas Percy A HISTORY OF WOOD-ENGRAVING.
London Spring Books (1964) small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xviii, 263 pages.
Reprint of the first edition. Excellent history with 120 illustrations. Jacket worn with tears.
Price: $ 50.00 other currencies Order nr. 29748

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(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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(Bookplates) Tattersfield, Nigel BOOKPLATES BY BEILBY & BEWICK, A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY
London and New Castle The British Library and Oak Knoll Press 1999 large 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 384 pages.
Forty years before the turn of the 18th century, a small, prestigious bookplate workshop was established, the likes of which were never to be seen again after its employment of one man: Thomas Bewick. To this day, the works of the bookplate shop of Beilby & Bewick are highly collectible and valued in the antiques world. This account offers several hundred bookplates engraved on copper and wood, executed and printed in the workshop over a period of 89 years. It is quite the most extensive and thorough study of this subject in its use of primary sources. The author's lively enthusiasm and careful scholarship have combined to produce a valuable and truly pioneering work on a subject clouded by speculation and optimistic attribution until now. Nigel Tattersfield has taken full advantage of the recently-opened archives of Beilby & Bewick to reveal a vast range of work, from banknotes and inscriptions in silver, to the making of type punches and bottle moulds. The workshop's surviving records are unique in their diversity and quantity. In recent years, the records have been used in the study of engraved silver, pottery transfers, and the preparatory studies for Bewick's wood engravings. Bookplates is fully illustrated, with over 300 examples, and its wealth of biographical information on the owners of the bookplates represents an important contribution to the social history of the north of England.
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 54988

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(Bowne & Co.) BOWNE & CO., STATIONERS, SOUTH STREET SEAPORT MUSEUM PRESENTS THE ART & TECHNIQUE OF WOOD ENGRAVING.
New York Bowne & Co. 1982 Broadside, 9 1/2 by 14 1/2 inches
Class on wood engraving, taught by John DePol assisted by Ginna Johnson, commencing November 3, 1982. Features illustration by DePol. Printed on a 1901 Golding Jobber. Top wrinkled
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 110020

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(Bowne & Co.) WOOD ENGRAVING.
(New York) South Street Seaport Museum 1997 16mo. self paper wrappers (4) pages
Brief text on wood engraving, describing techniques and tools. Reproductions of illustrations by Alexander Anderson, John Jackson and John DePol. Hand set and printed by Bowne & Co. at the South Street Seaport Museum, New York.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 109552

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Brandt, William H. INTERPRETIVE WOOD-ENGRAVING: THE STORY OF THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN WOOD-ENGRAVERS
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2009 11.75 x 12.75 inches Hardcover, dust jacket 204 pages
In the late nineteenth century, wood-engraving was the principle medium of illustration employed by publishers. From this beginning, print collector Bill Brandt goes on to recount the story of the Society of American Wood-Engravers. He reveals the medium's intricacies, the controversies sparked between traditional wood-engravers and America's New School, and the international acclaim rightly bestowed on these innovative American artists.

The lost art of interpretive wood-engraving comes to life in Brandt's detailed account. Using tools the size of dental instruments, the movement's talented and resourceful men and women engraved award-winning works of art - both interpretations of famous masterpieces and striking original works. The fifty prints reproduced on these pages, scanned from Brandt's extensive collection with most produced at full size, highlight the astonishing skill and painstaking craftsmanship required of a wood-engraving artist of the golden age.

The author profiles many leading personalities on the American wood-engraving scene, including Alexander Anderson, a New York doctor who became the father of American wood-engraving; William J. Linton, a talented English wood-engraver who led the Old School's relentless but unsuccessful charge against New School engraving techniques; Anna Botsford Comstock, who created hundreds of original wood-engraved book illustrations from nature; General Rush C. Hawkins, a Civil War figure who, as U.S. Commissioner on Art, secured the prominent display of American wood-engravings at the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris; Timothy Cole, who traveled through Europe creating wood-engraved interpretations of paintings by the old masters; and Elbridge Kingsley, whose revolutionary direct-from-nature wood-engravings were created in rural New England from his horse-drawn sketching car. Includes over eighty illustrations, and printed in an edition of 600 numbered books.

Brandt tells how the Society of American Wood-Engravers burned brightly for almost twenty years, and then faded away in the early days of photoreproductions. Readers, glimpsing the warm glow of a remarkable era, will take pride in this little-known period of American art history.

Bill Brandt has served on the boards of directors of the American Historical Print Collectors Society, the Northwest Print Council, and the Friends of the Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts at the Portland Art Museum.
Price: $ 85.00 other currencies Order nr. 102011

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Brett, Simon WOOD ENGRAVING, HOW TO DO IT.
Cambridge Silent Books (1994) small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers 128 pages.
First edition. The best current manual on wood engraving. Well illustrated. Indexed.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 78100

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Buchanan-Brown, John BRITISH WOOD-ENGRAVERS C. 1820- C. 1860: A CHECKLIST.
1983 8vo. later pamphlet binder. pp.31-62.
Removed from the Journal of the Printing Historical Society Number 17 (1982/1983). With the ink signature of Gavin Bridson.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 100081

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(DePol, John) ADVERTISEMENT FOR JOHN DEPOL AND THE PICKERING PRESS
Maple Shade Pickering Press n.d. 7" x 9.75" Single sheet
This small broadside promises satisfaction with high quality work from the engraving block of John DePol and the presswork of John Anderson at the Pickering Press, which combines DePol's engravings with Mother's Day, Father's Day or Valentine's Day greetings. According to this leaf, DePol's "fees are modest in view of the Great Care and Precision exersized and is work is ready, more often than not, when promised" and John Anderson's fees for his presswork "are equally modest, his deliveries are not quite so prompt." Illustrated with a wood engraving by DePol depicting an old-fashioned safe nearly, but not quite beaten into submission by a criminal, who is seated on a stool next to the safe, taking a lunch break.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 79290

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(DePol, John) THE DELBARTON MOTHERS' GUILD PRESENTS THE ANNUAL FALL LUNCHEON, BRIDGE & FASHION SHOW.
N.P. Delbarton School 1965 oblong 12mo. stiff paper wrappers, embossed design in middle of front cover, green cord on spine. (6) pages.
Well printed description of the important buildings of the school with illustrations by John DePol printed in green and black and white ink
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 107295

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(DePol, John) DePol, John BEGINNINGS OF THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY IN PENNSYLVANIA
A series of wood engravings by John De Pol New York The Hamilton Division, Security-Columbian Banknote Company n.d. (1959) 4to. loose leaves placed in portfolio with folded tail and fore-edge unpaginated (8 plates)
Fraser and Friedl page 94. This keepsake was distributed by The Hamilton Division of the Security-Columbian Banknote Company of New York. The eight two-color wood engravings were commissioned by the Erie Natural Gas Company of New York to appear in the report "Oil in Pennsylvania" by H. Edward Wolf. They were printed from the original blocks and issued as this keepsake "on the eve of the centennial of the founding of the petroleum industry in Pennsylvania in 1859." Fraser and Friedl say the portfolio was issued with six wood engravings, but there are eight prints here.
Price: $ 160.00 other currencies Order nr. 95396

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(DePol. John) DePol, John HUDSON RIVER PIER
New York United States Banknote Corporation 1974 13" x 9" Single sheet in folder
This is a Keepsake from the United States Banknote Corporation . The engraving was printed in two colors. DePol was that rare indiviual among the citizenry of New York, a born Manhattanite. Perhaps that is one reason he responded with such feeling, symmpathy and spirit to the many scenes of the city which he created.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 79295

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(DePol, John) DePol, John WEST SIDE - MANHATTAN
New York United States Banknote Corporation 1975 13" x 9" single sheet in folder
This is a Keepsake from the United States Banknote Corporation . The engraving was printed letterpress in two colors directly from the original blacks ( engraved on Venezuelan boxwood circa 1960) on S.D. Warren's Lustro Offset Enamel Dull 80# cover. This engraving was executed from an on-the-scene sketch . It was transferred by burnishing to the surface of the black which an previously been inked in black and then coated with a fine film of tallow from a candle via the thumb and finger method. This yields a dull black surface receptive to the pencil drawing which is then followed as a guide when engraving.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 79294

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