Displaying 1 of 1 1928 Format: Book Author: Bliss, Douglas Percy, 1900-1984. Title: A history of wood-engraving / by Douglas Percy Bliss ; with one hundred and twenty illustrations. Publisher, Date: London ; Toronto : J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. ; New York : E.P. Dutton & Co., 1928. Description: xvi pages, 1 leaf, 263 pages : frontispiece, illustrations, plates ; 26 cm Subjects: Wood-engraving -- History. Illustration of books -- History. Illustrated books. Genre: Illustrated works. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-256) and index. Gift of Lessing J. Rosenwald, 1943-1975. Contents: Preface / by Campbell Dodgson -- An elementary account of the technique of woodcutting and of wood-engraving which must be read -- The beginnings : paper -- devotional prints -- cards -- Block-books -- Metal-cuts of the manière criblée -- Early German book-illustration -- Early French book-illustration -- Les livres d'heures -- Early Italian book-illustration -- Early Spanish book-illustration -- Early Netherlandish book-illustration -- The danse macabre -- Dürer -- The work for the Emperor Maximilian -- The German painter-engravers of Dürer's time -- On the woodcuts in herbals and other sources chiefly in the sixteenth century -- Popular prints of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Bewick -- Reproductive engraving of last century -- Blake and the modern English wood-engravers -- Gauguin and the modern French wood-engravers. LCCN: 28017613 Other Number: 2071514 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 8062 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 761.209 Bliss Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Displaying 1 of 1
