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printed in six or eight colours.This beautiful volume, produced in a numbered and limited edition, includes previously unpublished illustrations and a checklist of all known publications containing plates by Fawcett, with every individual plate listed.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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... young man was similar to the advice given ( was it by Lord Chesterfield ? ) to a young man contemplating marriage : Don't . John Thornton was in fact the author of the first book we know of which has the imprint ' Driffield . Printed by ...
... young man was similar to the advice given ( was it by Lord Chesterfield ? ) to a young man contemplating marriage : Don't . John Thornton was in fact the author of the first book we know of which has the imprint ' Driffield . Printed by ...
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... Young Naturalist's Library ' ( which had appeared nearly 20 years earlier at is in paper and Is 6d in cloth ) at higher prices : these consisted of Nests and Eggs of Familiar British Birds at 4s and H. G. Adams's Beautiful Shells ...
... Young Naturalist's Library ' ( which had appeared nearly 20 years earlier at is in paper and Is 6d in cloth ) at higher prices : these consisted of Nests and Eggs of Familiar British Birds at 4s and H. G. Adams's Beautiful Shells ...
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... YOUNG ( redrawn by R. S. Chattock from Gould , The Birds of Great Britain ) . P. 36 THREE - SPINED STICKLEBACK AND NEST ( drawn by R. S. Chattock ) . p . 50 MELICERTA ON WEED . p . 85 ... YOUNG . p . 105 p . 121 SHELDRAKE AND YOUNG . 150.
... YOUNG ( redrawn by R. S. Chattock from Gould , The Birds of Great Britain ) . P. 36 THREE - SPINED STICKLEBACK AND NEST ( drawn by R. S. Chattock ) . p . 50 MELICERTA ON WEED . p . 85 ... YOUNG . p . 105 p . 121 SHELDRAKE AND YOUNG . 150.
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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