A STUDENT'S GUIDE TO WOOD ENGRAVING (BOOKS FOR THE CRAFTSMAN)
Written by Wilfred Gregson
Published by B.T. Batsford Ltd.
in 1953
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- ART
- WOOD ENGRAVINGS
- WOODCUTS
- CRAFTS
A STUDENT'S GUIDE TO WOOD ENGRAVING (BOOKS FOR THE CRAFTSMAN)
Written by Wilfred Gregson.
Stock no. 1830773
1st.
1953.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
A practical introduction to the technique of the woodcut. The author is a wood engraver and is well qualified to eplain the technique of the craft and to illustrate the technique. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w wood engravings. xv and 79 pages including index. Boards clean. Text block foxed. Endpapers browned. Some foxing throughout. Green pictorial dustwrapper is browned, edge-rubbed with a few small closed tears and chips, small amount of loss to base of spine.
Front cover
Contents
- Preface
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgement
- Introduction
- Elementary Principles of Wood Engraving in Relation to Other Types of Engraving
- Outline History and Development of Modern Wood Engraving
- Preliminary Practice in and Use of Scraperboard
- Materials
- Care of Tools
- Handling of Tools
- Using the Tools
- Preparing a Block
- Preparing a Design
- Printing from the Block
- Cleaning the Block
- Secondary Cleaning and Engraving
- Bibliography
- A Selection of the work and well-known engravers
- Index