Benjamin Fawcett: Engraver and Colour Printer : with a List of His Books and PlatesAshgate Publishing, Limited, 1988 - 196 páginas Benjamin Fawcett (1808-1893) was the outstanding woodblock colour printer of the nineteenth century. Like Thomas Bewick, Fawcett was an artist,engraver, and naturalist. He was also a publisher, and originated all the books which made him famous. His earliest important works on British Birds, British Butterflies, and British Game Birds, were all illustrated with wood engravings skillfully hand coloured. But the success of these books made hand colouring increasingly uneconomical. By the late 1850s, Fawcett's illustrations were regularly printed in six or eight colours.This beautiful volume, produced in a numbered and limited edition, includes previously unpublished illustrations and a checklist of all known publications containing plates by Fawcett, with every individual plate listed. There are also essays on Fawcett's life, popular scientific publishing in the nineteenth century and Fawcett's colour woodblock techniques.Ruaria McLean is the author of Nicholas Bentley Drew the Pictures ; his wife Antonia McLean is the author of Humanism and the rise of science in Tudor England. |
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... George Baxter ( 1804-67 ) in Lewes , Sussex , was printing in colour from wood twenty years before Fawcett . His skill was consummate he frequently used 20 , and sometimes 30 or more blocks for a single print but too often the subjects ...
... George Baxter ( 1804-67 ) in Lewes , Sussex , was printing in colour from wood twenty years before Fawcett . His skill was consummate he frequently used 20 , and sometimes 30 or more blocks for a single print but too often the subjects ...
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... George Fawcett Bapt . 28.2.1775 , Bridlington . Mariner in 1808 . D. c . 1809 . = Sarah Thompson B. c . 1782 . M. 13.3.1808 , Bridlington . Five other children . BENJAMIN FAWCETT Bapt . 22.12 . 1808 , Bridlington . D. 12.1.1893 . Great ...
... George Fawcett Bapt . 28.2.1775 , Bridlington . Mariner in 1808 . D. c . 1809 . = Sarah Thompson B. c . 1782 . M. 13.3.1808 , Bridlington . Five other children . BENJAMIN FAWCETT Bapt . 22.12 . 1808 , Bridlington . D. 12.1.1893 . Great ...
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... George Bell & Sons I am dear Sirs , yours very truly , B. Fawcett The following letter is in the M. C. F. Morris archive in Hull University Library . It throws some light on the ultimate failure of the firm of Groombridge . 82A ...
... George Bell & Sons I am dear Sirs , yours very truly , B. Fawcett The following letter is in the M. C. F. Morris archive in Hull University Library . It throws some light on the ultimate failure of the firm of Groombridge . 82A ...
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Foreword | 7 |
Groombridge and popular science publishing | 25 |
Fawcetts colour woodblock techniques | 35 |
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ACROSTICHUM ADIANTUM ALPINE ASPIDIUM ASPLENIUM Barbara Turner Beautiful Leaved Plants Bell & Daldy Benjamin Fawcett black on front blocked in gold Bridlington Briggate British Birds BUNTING Butterflies CASTLE CHEILANTHES colour printing coloured plates Copies DAVALLIA DOTTEREL Driffield DUCK edition Engraver and Printer F. O. Morris Facing Fawcett Ferns Floral World frond front and spine Frontispiece Garden George Bell gold and black gold and blind Green cloth blocked GREY Groombridge & Sons Groombridge and Sons GULL HALL hand-coloured History of British Hull University Illustrated by A. F. Intellectual Observer Leeds London M. C. F. Morris MEDAL Millington Natural History Number of coloured PARRAKEET Paternoster Row Pinna POLYPODIUM printed by Fawcett printer named Printer of text PTERIS published RMCL SANDPIPER signed A. F. Lydon signed A.F.L. signed F signed T. W. Wood Text printed THRUSH Tinted title-page volume WARBLER Egg Webb & Millington XVIII XXXII