Boxwood Blockmaker.

(Whittington Press.) LAWRENCE (S.T.E.)

Boxwood Blockmaker.

Wood Engravings Collected in Honour of his Eightieth Birthday.

Description: 206/250 COPIES printed on Zerkall mould-made paper, wood-engraved frontispiece by Leo Wyatt printed in brown, and 37 further wood-engravings, each printed on a separate leaf with the engraver's name printed in brown beneath, title-page printed in black and brown, pp. [92], royal 8vo, original quarter mid brown cloth with vertical gilt rule and marbled sides, backstrip lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, board slipcase, fine

Publication Details: Wakefield: [Printed by the Whittington Press for] Simon Lawrence, 1980

Notes: A beautifully printed record of the leading engravers of the period, including Monica Poole, John Craig and Richard Shirley-Smith, in addition to perennial favourites, Gertrude Hermes, Blair Hughes-Stanton, Reynolds Stone etc.

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