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[The Curwen Press] [The Fleuron] Furst, Herbert (Editor)
| Title | The Wood Cut: An Annual [Four Volumes] |
|---|---|
| Date | London: 1927 |
| Publisher | The Fleuron Limited, |
Description
A complete set, only four volumes printed. Volumes 1-IV limited to 750 copies, Volume IV limited to 700 copies, the set being one of 450 copies for sale in the United Kingdom. Quarter buckram over binding paper designed by Paul Nash (Volume I), Enid Marx (Volume II), Althea Willoughby (Volume III); Volume IV has plain paper binding instead of that by Harry Carter as called for; gilt lettering to the spines. Imperial Octavo, Vol. I, pp, [12] 75 [5]; Vol. II, pp. [12] 90 [2]; Vol. III, pp. [8] 78 [2]; Vol IV, pp.[6] 63 [12]. There are 64 full-page woodcuts across all four volumes, with contributions in: Volume I by: Enid Marx, Eric Ravilious, Douglas Percy Bliss, Eric F. Daglish, Eric Gill, Blair Hughes-Stanton, John Nash, Jacques Boullaire, Constant Le Breton, Fernand Siméon, Curt Gundermann, Walter Klemm, Emil Nolde, Giulio Cisari, Vladimir Andreivich Forsky, and Alexander Kravchenko Volume II by: Frans Masereel, David Jones, Hester Sainsbury, Paul Nash, William Kermode, Hermann Paul, Lucien Boucher, Sonia Lewitzka, Max Svabinsky, Petr Dillinger, Kaesz, Wladislaw Skoczylas, Serguiej Kolesnikov, OLaf Willums, Rockwell Kent, and Wharton Esherick Volume II1 by: John Nash, Gwendolen Raverat, Grace Rogers, Tirzah Garwood, Eric Jones, Gertrude Hermes, W. Morgan, Hans André, Vladimir Favorski, Andrej Gontcharoff, Yefin Minin, Nicholas Brümmer, Franz M. Jansen, Aristide Maillol and J. Franken Volume IV by: Gordon Craig, Leon Underwood, Althea Willoughby, Clare Leighton, Lionel Ellis, Buckland Wright, Frank Medworth, Percy Smith, Howard Simon, O. Eeckman, Wobst, Ernst Nückel, Ernst Barlach, D Galanis, Alexandre Alexeieff, R. Ben Susan, A. Ousatchoff, Alexey Kravtchenko, A. Kravtzoff, Nicolas Brümmer.
Condition
Volume 1: Very Good condition indeed. Volume II: Very Good condition, slight spotting to endpapers only. Volume III: Very Good with spotting to prelims and endpapers. Volume IV: Very Good indeed.


