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050 0 0 _aNE1143
_b.G37 1978b
082 1 _a769 GAR
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100 1 _aGarrett, Albert
245 1 2 _aA history of wood engraving
_c/ Albert Garrett.
260 _aLondon
_b: Bloomsbury Books
_c, 1978.
300 _a407 p.
_b: illus.
_c; 29 cm.
500 _aIncludes index.
520 3 _aA comprehensive study of one of Britain's most influential schools of art, and of its birth and development from its international forebears. The double tap root of 19th and 20th century black and / or white line engravers is clearly mapped. The remarkable contemporary revival of the white line school arising from the precursors William Blake and Thomas Bewick is described in detail with the Nash brothers and Wadsworth to the living and younger generation.
546 _aEnglish.
650 4 _aWood-engraving
_x-
_z-British
650 4 _aWood-engravers
942 _cMO
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