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Thomas Bewick and Russia
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By W E Butler. An essay on the profound influence of Thomas Bewick, wood engraver and designer, on a rising generation of Russian wood engravers at the turn of the twentieth century. Numerous illustrations together with a list of Russian artists influenced by Bewick. Paperback, 22 pp.
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So Loved
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By Sister Margaret Tournour. London: Primrose Hill Press, 2001. A contemplative book with twenty-three inspirational wood engravings by Sister Margaret accompanied by biblical texts. In an article in The Times, the world renowned British engraver Simon Brett characterized her strength as “the miniature, the small and delicate, and as Samuel Palmer noted of Blake, one [glimpses] here… corners of Paradise; the [most exquisite] pitch of intense poetry”. 198 x 129, 48 pp, paperback.
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Teddy Bears
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By Sue Pearson. Cambridge: Silent Books, 1990. A classic. Beautifully illustrated giving the reader an introduction to the gentle madness of teddy bear collecting, the care of the bears and a brief history of the teddy bear. The author is a leading authority on old bears and has lectured and exhibited her collection worldwide. Hardback, 60 pp.
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Anatoli Iwanowitsch Kalashchnikow
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By Klaus Rodel. Forlaget Exlibristen, 1991. In German, Danish and English. A history of the development of Russian graphics (engraving) with numerous illustrations produced in honor of Anatolii Kalashnikov's 60th birthday. The text provides a fascinating overview of the history of great Russian artists preceding and including Kalashnikov. Over 55 pages with stunning full and part page illustrations. Paperback.
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Designing a Book
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By Derek Brown. Bicester: Primrose Hill Press, 2003. This attractively assembled book demystifies the art of book design for the novice and acts as a useful reference tool for designers tackling desktop publishing for the first time. Written with computer users in mind but including the traditional concepts of book design developed over centuries. Illustrated to guide the reader through the process of designing a book using either a Mac or PC with a focus on users in the United States and Britain.Paperback, 128 pp. Available also in hardback.
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol
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By Oscar Wilde with wood engravings by Garrick Palmer. London: Primrose Hill Press, 1998. In 1895 Oscar Wilde was imprisoned for homosexuality. On his release, bankrupt and disgraced, he fled to France where he wrote his poetic masterpiece The Ballad of Reading Gaol. This poem is here illustrated by Garrick Palmer’s extraordinarily powerful engravings giving a new dimension to Wilde’s cry of pain. Oscar Wilde died in Paris at the age of 46. 198 x 129 mm, 48 pp. Hardback with dustjacket.
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JAC Harrison: Artist and Engraver
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By Brian North Lee. The Bookplate Society and Forlaget Exlibristen, 1983. A limited edition of an account of the bookplates by this important English engraver. Numerous illustrations including 50 plates and tipped in bookplate soft bound with paper wrappers. 135 pp.
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The Bookplates of Robert Hancock, James Ross and William Bache
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By Brian North Lee. Exlibristen, 1986. Essay on three 18th century engravers, including details on individual bookplates. Limited edition (350 numbered copies) with numerous illustrations, stiff paper wrappers. 58 pp.
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Designing a Book
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By Derek Brown. Bicester: Primrose Hill Press, 2003. This attractively assembled book demystifies the art of book design for the novice and acts as a useful reference tool for designers tackling desktop publishing for the first time. Written with computer users in mind but including the traditional concepts of book design developed over centuries. Illustrated to guide the reader through the process of designing a book using either a Mac or PC with a focus on users in the United States and Britain.Hardback, 128 pp. Available also in paperback.
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Watermarks
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By Yvonne Skargon. Primrose Hill Press, 2003, Bicester. Skargon is one of the finest contemporary engravers with an enchanting talent for creating images of plants, nature generally and animals in particular (especially cats) with such vividness that we find ourselves transported by her books to a magical world of indescribably beautiful plants, rivers, lakes and streams and audacious and charming animals. In this book, we find passages consecrating the beauty of rivers, other inland waters
and sea waters borrowing from John Clare, HD Lawrence, Edward Thomas, Virginia Woolf and others and brought to life by stunning wood engravings by Skargon. 245 x 170 mm, 48pp. Paperback.
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