Author: Arthur M. Hind
Title: An Introduction to a History of Woodcut with a Detailed Survey of Work Done in the Fifteenth Century
Description: London, Constable and Company Ltd. 1935. First edition. Cloth. A complete two volume set of An Introduction to a History of Woodcut which is richly illustrated throughout. Complete in two volumes. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece to volume one, with over four hundred and eighty-three illustrations across the two volumes. Collated complete. A detailed history of woodcuts as an artform, with the first volume considering primitive woodcut, single cuts and block-books, looking at the origin of woodcutting, with a survey of single cuts before the period of book illustration. The second volume goes on to explore book illustration and contemporary single cuts from different countries including Germany, Spain and France. Written by Arthur Mayger Hind, a British art historian and curator, who specialized in old master prints, and was Keeper of the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Light age toning and further spotting to the endpapers. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

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