SELBORNE, Joanna & NEWMAN, Lindsay. Gwen Raverat: Wood Engraver.

Denby Dale: The Fleece Press, 1996. Printed and published by Simon Lawrence at the Fleece Press. Royal 8vo. pp. 148, frontispiece portrait, numerous illustrations throughout including many of Raverat’s wood engravings. Quarter ochre cloth on marbled boards by Ann Muir, printed paper label to spine, green cloth slipcase with matching label. Binding by Angela James.

Limited to 225 copies, of which 200 were bound thus and 25 in quarter vellum. The paper is Zerkall; types set by Peter J. Sanderson in Scotch Roman at Whittington. A fine copy. Ex libris Edward Hamilton.

A superbly printed and illustrated monograph on Gwen Raverat (1885–1957), one of the foremost British wood engravers of the early twentieth century and a founding member of the Society of Wood Engravers. With essays by Joanna Selborne and Lindsay Newman, a full bibliography of Raverat’s printed work, and a comprehensive index of her engravings on wood and lino.

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