Author: Albert Delstanche; Geoffrey Whitworth [trans.]
Title: The Little Towns of Flanders
Description: London, Chatto and Windus, 1916. Cloth. Belgian artist Albert Delstanche uses woodcuts and descriptions to paint a portrait of his homeland before the destruction of the First World War. Translated from the original French by Geoffrey Whitworth.With twelve plates. Collated, complete.This is the work of Belgian printmaker and engraver Albert Delstanche. Delstanche lived and worked in London during the First World War, and while abroad carved these woodcuts of his homeland. A heartfelt preface from Belgian poet Emile Verhaeren acknowledges this: 'it may be, that at the very moment when you are tracing the outline of this or that old building, some wicked and well-aimed German gun, over there on the banks of the Lys or the Yperlee or the Yser, is finding its mark and bringing all to destruction&apos.Delstanche here presents a collection of picturesque views of the people, places and historic buildings of Flanders, including Bruges, Ypres, Furnes, Dixmude, and Louvain.To the front free endpaper is the contemporary owner's inscription of 'Gwendoline John', dated 1916. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Shelf wear to spine head and tail. Contemporary owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Light foxing to first and last few pages, but pages otherwise generally clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: Albert Delstanche. Very Good .

Keywords: Flemish Belgium Belgian WWI Belgium Woodcuts Emile Verhaeren Albert Delstanche


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