The Woodcut by Herbert Furst (45 results)

Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 1st Edition. Grey publisher's cloth, lettered and decorated in black. AN EX LIBRARY BOOK with typical library marks. Very clean tight text has been fitted with new endpapers and rebound in original covers and spine. Now a very good working copy. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES APPLY (2025) GB £8. Packed weight 2200g.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. various wood cut artists (illustrator). 1st Edition. This is a library copy that was rebound at some time with the library stamp on spine, three edges and some interior markings. Glue reminents inside back cover where lending envelope removed. Otherwise contents are fine and binding is tight. Over 200 illustrations in black and white and 16 plates in color. Size/Overweight may increase postal charges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Thick 4to. Publishers Decorative Cloth. A Very Good Book. a Few Marks to First Blanks. Slight Spotting to Page Edges. Inscription to Front Endpaper. PBFA Member. We Welcome Direct Contact With Our Customers. Contact Neil Ewart Rare Books If You Require Any Further Information or Images. Heavy Item - Will Require Additional Shipping Costs on Overseas Orders.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Bound in light brown cloth with black woodcut illustration and text. 271pp.CONDITION: Ex-Library. Typical library markings. Covers have moderate rubbing, edge wear, and soiling. Pages are clear and unmarked. Binding has been repaired and is a little shaken, but holding. Due to the size and weight of this item, an additional shipping charge will likely apply, and will be requested after purchase. Full refund if not satisfied.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Heavy, thick and VG, 1st edn, oversized copy with full page illustrations, 200 b/w and 16 cps, xxviii + 264pps + index, minor foxing in a few spots, drawings unaffected, slight browning to eps and pastedowns. Weak gutters so heavy book poses a threat.

1st edition. Library copy. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Boards dust-toned. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Internally, bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 271 pages: illustrations, colour frontispiece, plates (part colour, 1 double); 29 x 23 cm. Notes: "Bibliogrphy of books consulted": page 247. Contents: Title-page printed in red and black.Subjects: Illustrated books.Wood-engraving History. Genre: Designer binding.History. Illustrated. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Title-page printed in red and black. Over 200 illustrations in black-and-white and 16 inserted colour plates. Fawn canvas with black spine titling, blocked in black on the upper board. Lacks dust-jacket, ex-library marks to title-page and spine, engraved bookplate. A good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. A study of the evolution of the craft.with a chapter on xylography by W. Thomas Smith. With over 200 illustrations in black and white, sixteen plates in colour. Shelf wear to cloth, small nicks to spine. Please contact us if you need further information or scans.

1st edition. Library copy. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Boards dust-toned. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Internally, bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 271 pages: illustrations, colour frontispiece, plates (part colour, 1 double); 29 x 23 cm. Notes: "Bibliogrphy of books consulted": page 247. Contents: Title-page printed in red and black.Subjects: Illustrated books.Wood-engraving History. Genre: Designer binding.History. Illustrated. 1 Kg.

FIRST EDITION. A VERY GOOD HARDBACK COPY IN SLIGHTLY MARKED BOARDS.A STUDY OF THE EVOLUTION OF THE CRAFT WITH A CHAPTER ON THE PRACTICE OF XYLOGRAPHY BY W. THOMAS SMITH WITH OVER TWO HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS IN BLACK AND WHITE AND SIXTEEN PLATES IN COLOUR.

Half-Leather. Condition: Very Good. ILLUSTRATED (illustrator). 1st Edition. Furst, Herbert; Smith, W. Thomas THE MODERN WOODCUT John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, London, 1924. First edition of this study of the development of the modern woodcut, by the prolific art critic and editor. Heavily illustrated discussion of the woodcut, its technical development and aesthetic evolution in modern art. Plates cover a wide historical span, from block books of the 16th century through the work of Max Weber, Henry Fitch Taylor, Rockwell Kent, and Edvard Munch. The book includes a final technical chapter by Smith, demonstrator at the Slade School of Fine Arts, titled "Hints on the Practice of Xylography. FUll of fabulous woodcuts in black and white and colour, bound in publishers tan leather six raised bands with gilt rulings and title fake vellum boards slightly marked and a little grubby. A very good almost fine copy. book is heavy and may incur extra postage.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Eric Gill, Eric Ravilious, Gerturde Hermes, Gwen Raverat, Paul Nash, John Nash, David Jones et al (illustrator). 28x19cm, 75, 90, 78, 71pp (four issues, all published). With copious wood engravings printed from the blocks in each issue, two tipped-in specimens of coloured Curwen pattern papers by Enid Marx and Eric Ravilious (No. 1), fold-out plate with images of wallpapers (No. 2). Each issue from a limitation of (No. 1 only not stated, but probable) 750, 750, 750 and 700 respectively, all printed at the Curwen Press with the total limitation split into allocations for Curwen and Random House, each bound in quarter-black cloth over black-and-white patterned paper covered boards designed by Paul Nash, Enid Marx, Althea Willoughby and Harry Carter respectively, Nos. 2 and 4 only with original printed dustjackets in acetate protector sleeves. A cornucopia of wood engraving, including book reviews, technical articles and crowned by the engravings themselves which represent a Who's Who of British, continental and Russian artists of the 'golden age' of the late 1920s: John Buckland Wright, Clare Leighton, Leon Underwood, Alexander Alexeieff, Gwen Raverat, Gertrude Hermes, Aristide Maillol, Eric Gill, Blair Hughes-Stanton, John Nash, Eric Ravilious, David Jones, Paul Nash and many others, plus Rockwell Kent, Wharton Esherick and Howard Simon representing the USA. A very pleasing set each with its appropriate patterned paper boards (some copies were issued in plain boards), two of the issues with their scarce dustjackets. An essential component of the library of any wood engraving enthusiast. Very Good: some board corners with slight bumping and wear, slight browning around the head of the spine to No. 4, a foxing spot to the blank margin of p47 No.1, ink inscription to ffep No.1, otherwise internally clean and bright with no inscriptions, No. 2 dustjacket Very Good (moderate fade to spine), No. 4 dustjacket Good (brown liquid watermarks) but neither with any tearing or loss.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 4to, . With over 200 illustrations in black and white, sixteen plates in colour. Bound in beige cloth, with black titles and vignette to upper cover, inner joints cracked, signs of label removed from inside front cover, pp271,

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Thomas Bewick; William Blake; Albrecht Dürer; Paul Gaugin; Hokusai; Wassili Kandinsky; Edvard Much; Paul Nash; et al (illustrator). 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. book.

A study of the evolution of the craft.with a chapter on xylography by W. Thomas Smith. With over 200 illustrations in black and white, sixteen plates in colour. Bound in beige cloth, with black titles and vignette to upper cover; black titles to spine. Unclipped dust-wrapper. xviii, 271 pp. First edition. VG [some light spotting to the early and late matter and to the outer page-edges; some rubbing to the edges of the book itself], in a VG wrapper that is showing some crease-wear and a few small, closed tears. Internally excellent. A handsome copy of this important reference work, scarce in wrapper. 11271. Heavy book, extra international shipping charges will apply.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. xxviii + 271pp + 16 colour plates, 'with over 200 illustrations in black and white'. Chapter on xylography by W. Thomas Smith. Cloth boards, little bumped. Lower edge little dusty. Torn, frayed, rubbed, marked and soiled d/w, largely intact. Fore edge browned. Contents foxed. Name on front free end paper and outer corner of title page. 29x24cms.

Condition: Used - Very Good. 1930. Hardcover. Cloth, dj. Edition de Luxe, number 51 of 75 numbered copies. Maroon cloth with pictorial dustjacket. Quarto. 71 pp. Illustrated. (This copy lacks frontispiece.) Significant loss to dj on front and rear panels near spine ends and corners, now protected in acetate wrapper. Moderate shelf wear, scuffing, and toning to boards. Expected age-toning to endpapers. Otherwise clean and unmarked and altogether very good. Very Good.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. 1st Ed. 1924 Dodd, Mead & Company, tan cloth hardcover with dust jacket, lower corner of cover bumped, DJ is worn with tears and tanned edges, endpapers tanned and foxed, some foxing spots on interior pages, index, 271 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: very good. First edition. Quarto. xxviii 271pp. Bound in tan cloth with pictorial design to front cover. With over 200 illustrations in black and white as well as 16 color plates. Some foxing. Previous owner's small book label on front paste-down. Illustrators of the woodcut include but not limited to: Vanessa Bell, John Bewick, Thomas Beckwick, Bonfils, Brangwyn, Caligiani, Timothy Cole, Dalziel Brothers, Durer, Birket Foster, Gauguin, Robert Gibbings, Holbein, Holusai, Kandinski,Rockwell Kent, Masereel, Millet, Moreau, Munch, Wm Nicholson, Nolde, Pissarro, Raverat, Charles Ricketts, Charles Shannon,Zorach.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Published by John Lane / The Bodley Head, 1924. Oversized hardbound without jacket. Ex-library with substantial wear at head and foot of spine (fraying), worn to boards at tips. Covers loose; hinges reinforced with tape (inside). General overall wear. Typical library markings inside front cover. General overall wear; binding moderately cocked. No markings of text noted.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some minor loss) and dust-toned dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 271 p. : col. front., illus., plates (part col., 1 double) ; 29 x 23 cm. Notes; "Bibliography of books consluted": p. 247. Subjects; Wood-engraving - History. Wood-engraving - Technique. Illustrated books. Woodcuts. Genre; Illustrated. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Bw illustrated boards with black cloth spine, gilt spine lettering; 78 pp, bw illustrations throughout. This edition is one of 750 printed. Includes: Woodcut wall-paper: past and future. / by Herbert Furst. -- The woodcut playing card. / by Cyril G.E. Bunt -- The tools of the wood-engraver. / by Douglas Percy Bliss -- Frans Masereel and his woodcuts / by Edmund Bucher -- A list of English, German and French books with woodcut illustrations published during 1927 -- Fifteen contemporary woodcuts: English: David Jones -- Hester Sainsbury -- Paul Nash -- William Kermode; French: Hermann Paul -- Lucien Boucher -- Sonia Lewitzka; Czechoslovak: Max Svabinsky -- Petr Dillinger; Hungarian: Kaesz; Polish: Wladislaw Skoczylas; Russian: Serguiej Kolesnikov; Norwegian: Olaf Willums; United States: Rockwell Kent -- Wharton Escherick. Good+ (light smudging and edgewear to boards, pages are very clean and clear. inner hinge is beginning to crack; writing in pen ifc; some aging and foxing to ifc, bfc, ffep and bfep; textblock edges are foxed; interior is clean; foldout has light foxing. binding is solid.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Buckram cloth, black-stamped vignette and titles, with over 200 illustrations in b&w, and 16 color plates. Very good copy.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 372. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1924 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 372.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 362. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1924 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 362.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some minor loss) and dust-toned dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 271 p. : col. front., illus., plates (part col., 1 double) ; 29 x 23 cm. Notes; "Bibliography of books consluted": p. 247. Subjects; Wood-engraving - History. Wood-engraving - Technique. Illustrated books. Woodcuts. Genre; Illustrated. 3 Kg.

1stEdition. Fine copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 271 pages; Xxviii, 271 p. : ill. (some col. ) ; 29 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Wood-engraving --History. Wood-engraving --Technique. Illustrated books. 2 Kg.

[Engraving] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Quarto (29 x 24cm), pp.[4] xxviii; 271 [1]. With frequent illustrations and 16 colour plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's cream cloth, with black titles to spine and upper, and black decoration to upper. Fore and lower edges untrimmed. Light occasional spotting, otherwise internally clean. Cloth shows a little light wear and bumping. Near fine.

Condition: Good. Original cloth, lightly stained. One plate with marginal stain.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 4to. xxviii, 271pp. 29 x 23 cm. With over 200 illustrations in black and white, sixteen plates in colour. Notes; "Bibliography of books consluted": p. 247. Original light ochre cloth, decorated in black, d/w a little darkened, rubbed and frayed around spine.