The Modern Woodcut A Study of the Evolution of the Craft by Herbert Furst ('Tis') with a Chapter on the Practice of Xylography by W. Thomas Smith with over Two Hundred Illustrations in Black & White and Sixteen Plates in Colour

Herbert Furst

Published by Quarto Press, Vaduz, 1979

About this Item

A very smart limited edition of Furst's study of the woodcut, with over 200 illustrations. In the publisher's original cloth binding. This is a 1979 reprint of Herbert Furst's survey of the art of the woodcut, limited to 500 copies. The work of individual artists, such as Albrecht Dürer, Thomas Bewick, and Edvard Munch, is carefully analysed, allowing the reader to follow the fascinating development of this art form. 218 illustrations. 1 folding plate facing page 124. The 16 colour plates are in black and white in this edition as, according to Quarto Press, 'The destruction of the original colour blocks and the technical problems of rescreening four-colour process-work has obliged the present publisher to reproduce in monochrome the sixteen colour illustrations of the original work'. Collated complete. In publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Fine.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Modern Woodcut A Study of the Evolution of the Craft by Herbert Furst ('Tis') with a Chapter on the Practice of Xylography by W. Thomas Smith with over Two Hundred Illustrations in Black & White and Sixteen Plates in Colour
• Publisher: Quarto Press, Vaduz
• Publication Date: 1979
• Binding: Cloth
• Illustrator: Thomas Bewick; William Blake; Albrecht Dürer; Paul Gaugin; Hokusai; Wassili Kandinsky; Edvard Much; Paul Nash; et al
• Condition: Fine
• Weight: 1.5 kilograms
• Book Type: book