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A Heavenly Craft; The Woodcut in Early Printed Books

2004ref. 81415George Braziller; Et Al. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- xiii 1 222 pages 100 color illustrations. -- with a bonus offer--; The combination of the woodcut—a print method devised early in the fifteenth century—with Johannes Gutenberg's revolutionary invention of printing with moveable type resulted in a powerful explosion of information and ideas. For the first time it was possible to use a mechanized system to print identical copies of books containing both text and images. Featured in A Heavenly Craft are the earliest surviving examples of these books from throughout Western Europe all printed within the first century after Gutenberg's invention. The contributors bring these rare books to life exploring the evolution of the technique composition and coloration of the woodcut beginning with the earliest publications. Many of the woodcut designs grew out of the tradition of manuscript illumination in which book illustrations were painstakingly executed by hand. The authors also present the distinguishing features of national style and taste treating the reader to examples from Germany Italy France Spain and the Netherlands. In addition A Heavenly Craft describes the provenance of these volumes providing an account of how Lessing J. Rosenwald purchased them from the heir to the Lea and Perrins fortune and later donated them to the Library of Congress. These early printed volumes are the predecessors of today's illustrated books. A Heavenly Craft celebrates these origins making these early publications available to bibliophiles and print lovers. 100 color illustrations. . 2004. 0807615366 . George Braziller; Et Al hardcover

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