In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future.

In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This compilation is a concentrated burst of the trademark wit and virtuosity of Atwood’s bestselling novels, brilliant stories, and insightful poetry.

English Wood-Engraving 1900-1950 - Thomas Balston

English Wood-Engraving 1900-1950 - Thomas Balston. FROM THE death of Bewick in 1828 till nearly the end of the nineteenth century, the art of original wood-engraving was dormant in England; all the skill of the craftsmen was employed on the reproduction of works of artists who had little or no interest in the medium. But the period covered by this book, 1900–1950, saw the rise of the now flourishing school of artist-craftsmen whose works are so fundamentally different in design and technique from anything which preceded them as to constitute a new branch of the art.

Thomas Bewick wrote A History of British Birds at the end of the eighteenth century, just . But it was far more than that, for in the vivid vignettes scattered through the book Bewick drew the life of the country people of the North East - a world already vanishing under the threat of enclosures.

Thomas Bewick wrote A History of British Birds at the end of the eighteenth century, just as Britain fell in love with nature. This was one of the wildlife books that marked the moment, the first 'field-guide' for ordinary people, illustrated by woodcuts of astonishing accuracy and beauty.

After Bewick’s death, however, wood engraving served merely as a. .

After Bewick’s death, however, wood engraving served merely as a method to reproduce other works of art. The English poet and artist William Blake (1757–1827) engraved his own designs on wood, but his work is an isolated example of original work done in the technique in his day. Wood engraving by William Blake, 1820–21, for Robert John Thornton's Pastorals of Virgil. Although in the late 19th century photoengraving began to replace wood engraving for reproduction, the other technique survived and was used to great advantage by such artists as . Escher, Leonard Baskin, Fritz Eichenberg, and Barry Moser.

HOW PETER MET THE SPANIARDIt was a spring afternoon in the sixth year of the reign of King HenryVII. There had been a great show in London, for that day hisGrace o.ened the newly convened Parliament, and announced to hisfaithful people-who received the news with much cheering, since war isever popular at first-his intention of invading France, and of leadingthe English armies in person.

Nature's Engraver book. But his work was far more than a mere guide, for in the vivid vignettes scattered through the book, Bewick captured the vanishing world of rural English life. In this superb biography, Jenny Uglow tells the story of the farmer's son from Tyneside who influenced book illustration for a century to come. It is a story of violent change, radical politics, lost ways of life, and the beauty of the wild - a journey to the beginning of our lasting obsession with the natural world.

If this was the state of wood engraving in London, it was naturally lower at.1774 Bewick's period of apprenticeship terminated In 1776 he made a pedestrian tour to the north, and in the same year started.

If this was the state of wood engraving in London, it was naturally lower at Newcastle. Mr. Ralph Beilby's business, indeed, was of a most miscellaneous character. He engraved pipe-moulds, bottle-moulds, brass clock-faces, coffin-plates, stamps, seals, bill-heads, crests, and ciphers. 1774 Bewick's period of apprenticeship terminated. In 1776 he made a pedestrian tour to the north, and in the same year started for London. Here he speedily found employment with an engraver named Cole, with Isaac Taylor, with Thomas Hodgson, the printer and publisher, and others.

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Eric Gill, British (Brighton, England 1882 - 1940 Harefield, England), Eve, 1935, Series/Book Title: Bookplate . Thomas Bewick, English (1753 - 1828), Ex-Libris William Taylor, Wood engraving, Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles Bain Hoyt.

Eric Gill, British (Brighton, England 1882 - 1940 Harefield, England), Eve, 1935, Series/Book Title: Bookplate of Jacob Weiss, Woodcut, P. 885, Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Herman T. Radin.

Very readable book about the naturalist, wood engraver, artist, genius that was Thomas Bewick. Bewick was a master craftsman of his time in the wood engraving business. Book was in as-new condition.