Lino-Cuts. A Handbook of Linoleum-Cut Colour Printing.

FLIGHT, Claude.

Published by London: The Bodley Head, 1948

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Second edition, first impression, which revises the first of 1927, since, as the author writes in his preface, "the art of lino-cut colour printing has made great strides in this country" in the intervening years. This was to the credit of Flight himself; the exhibition he organised at the Redfern Gallery in London in 1929 was "the first exhibition devoted exclusively to the linocut in Britain; its success at the Redfern Gallery, London, led to a series of eight annual exhibitions which he arranged, initially at the Redfern and then at the Ward Gallery, London, until 1937" (ODNB). As he proudly remarks in the preface, "that over fifteen hundred in this short time, and at a price of one and a half to three guineas each, are now on the walls of British homes, proves that a good deal of interest has been taken in the pictorial side of this craft". Quarto. Colour frontispiece, 10 colour and 6 black and white plates to rear, 2 full-page illustrations and several to text. Original grey cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in orange. With dust jacket. Foyles's ticket to front paste-down. Jacket spine toned, chipping, a couple of closed tears, and slight creasing to upper edges, unclipped: a fine copy in a very good jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lino-Cuts. A Handbook of Linoleum-Cut Colour Printing.
• Publisher: London: The Bodley Head, 1948