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Woodcuts and Wood Engravings: Being a Lecture Delivered to the Print Collectors' Club on January 20th 1925 on the Origin and Character of the Present School of Engraving and Cutting
1926Best.-Nr. 928T38London: Print Collectors' Club 1926. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 10" by 7.5". Not Stated. A smart copy of this very scarce illustrated lecture on woodcuts and wood engravings from British artist Noel Rooke. First edition. Limited to five hundred copies of which three hundred are for presentation to the members of the Print Collectors' Club. This is number four hundred and eleven. Very scarce. Illustrated with sixteen plates and twelve in-text figures. Collated complete. A copy of the lecture delivered to the Print Collectors' Club on January 20th 1925 on the origin and character of the present school of wood engraving and woodcutting. Written and delivered by Noel Rooke a British wood-engraver and artist whose ideas and teaching made a major contribution to the revival of British wood-engraving in the twentieth century. In the original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally smart with minor bumping to the extremities and the odd mark to the boards. Minor fading to the spine. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting. Very Good Print Collectors' Club hardcover
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