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printed in six or eight colours.This beautiful volume, produced in a numbered and limited edition, includes previously unpublished illustrations and a checklist of all known publications containing plates by Fawcett, with every individual plate listed.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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... borders in pink . Blue paper covers printed in black . No mention of Fawcett . Number of coloured pages : 16 . The ... borders , paired in openings , and printed in different colours on each page . The same borders appear in Pictorial ...
... borders in pink . Blue paper covers printed in black . No mention of Fawcett . Number of coloured pages : 16 . The ... borders , paired in openings , and printed in different colours on each page . The same borders appear in Pictorial ...
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... border , outside back cover is blank . pp.2-15 have same type and blocks as 7A , inside plain rule borders with florets at the corners , all in black . The words JOHN GILPIN on cover are set in same open sans serif as the title of The ...
... border , outside back cover is blank . pp.2-15 have same type and blocks as 7A , inside plain rule borders with florets at the corners , all in black . The words JOHN GILPIN on cover are set in same open sans serif as the title of The ...
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... borders in blue and light red on front , border only , in yellow , on back , plain canvas spine . Cover dated 1847. The author was Francis Lister Hawks ( see Osborne Collection , 1958 , p . 202 ) . The first edition was published in ...
... borders in blue and light red on front , border only , in yellow , on back , plain canvas spine . Cover dated 1847. The author was Francis Lister Hawks ( see Osborne Collection , 1958 , p . 202 ) . The first edition was published in ...
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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