Entrée principale:

Bliss, Douglas Percy, 1900-1984, author.

Titre et auteur:

A history of wood-engraving / by Douglas Percy Bliss ; with one hundred and twenty illustrations.

Publication:

London : Spring Books, 1964.

Description:

xvi, 263 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
"Originally published 1928"--Title page verso
"Printed in England by Richard Clay and Company Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk"--Title page verso
Also available online.
"Originally published 1928"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-256) and index.
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.
Dust jacket.

Sujet:

Wood-engraving History.
Illustration of books History.
Illustrated books History.
Illustration des livres Histoire.
Livres illustrés Histoire.
Illustration of books
Illustrated books
Wood-engraving

Classification/genre:

illustrated books.
Illustrated works
History
Ouvrages illustrés.

Vedettes secondaires:

Dodgson, Campbell, 1867-1948, writer of preface.
Richard Clay & Co., printer.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque study room 63714
Cote: PO7970 NE1030 REF; ID:85-B8422
Statut: Disponible