Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning wear and marking due to age. Year 1951. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> REYNOLDS STONE one of the fore-most among contemporary wood-engravers began his career as an ap-prentice to the printing trade at the Cambridge University Press. A meeting and subsequent stay with Eric Gill turned his attention from printing to engraving and in this account of his life and work Myfanwy Piper describes the development of his technique from those early days. Equally accomplished as an engraver of letter-forms heraldic devices and pictorial vignettes Reynolds Stone has produced some remarkable work as an illustrator of fine books for pub-lishers and private presses and he is also a deservedly popular designer of book-plates and letter-headings. More than 100 examples of his work are shown including many engravings executed for private commissions and limited editions which have not previ-ously been available to a wide public. (LL)