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uwmspeccoll · 1 year

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Wood Engraving Wednesday

Here are a few delightful wood engravings from a recent gift showing the various processes that go into binding a book. This little pamphlet is entitled A Short History of Bookbinding and a Glossary of Styles and Terms Used in Binding . . . .printed in London at the Chiswick Press for the bookbinder Joseph William Zaehnsdorf in 1895.These images were probably printed from metal plates that were made from the original wood engravings. The engravings are not attributed, as was the case for most commercial engravings.

Click or tap on the images to see the definitions for these activities as provided in the booklet’s glossary.

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#Wood Engraving Wednesday #wood engravings #commercial wood engravings #A Short History of Bookbinding #bookbinding #Chiswick Press #Joseph William Zaehnsdorf

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thefugitivesaint · 1 year

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John Gilbert (1817-1897), 'The Demon Lover’, ''The Book of British Ballads'' by Samuel Carter Hall, 1842 Source

#john gilbert #english artists #the book of british ballads #the demon lover #samuel carter hall #wood engravings #engravings #vintage art

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atomic-chronoscaph · 1 year

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Paradise Lost - art by Gustave Doré (1866)

#gustave doré #paradise lost #john milton #book illustrations #19th century art #epic poem #wood engravings #fallen angel #lucifer #satan #angelic war #cassell petter and galpin #17th century poet #1860s #1866

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whitedogblog · 5 months

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Smith's Illustrated Astronomy, 1849-1850

#astronomy #solar system #wood engravings

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muspeccoll · 7 months

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ARRR! Talk Like Pirate Day is September 19!

Bringing Her Yards Aportland, Tackles to the Gooseneck of the Tiller, Sheer Off, Running His Guns, Setting Fire to the Powder, Raising Their Metal, Bringing Her on the Careen.

These are terms most of us do not hear very often, or are unfamiliar with, but to ship’s captains and crew during the Age of Sail, all of these were well understood.

Acts of piracy on the high seas had been common from the time people first took to the sea, but for most of us today, the word Pirate conjures up images of 18th-century buccaneers made popular in art, books, and movies. Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, Captain William Kidd, Stede Bonnet, Anne Bonny, “Calico Jack” Rackham, Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts, and Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy are just a few of the men and women who “Went on the Account,” that is, turned to piracy.

This book, The Lives and Bloody Exploits of the Most Noted Pirates, Their Trials and Executions, published by Ezra Strong in 1839, describes the lives and careers of many of these pirate captains in colorful detail.

Perhaps the following speech, included in this book, (pages 129 and 130) and attributed to pirate Captain “Black Sam” Bellamy, gives us an insight into the reason why so many seafaring men, during the Age of Sail, chose to became pirates. Captain Bellamy, commanding the Wydah Galley, captured and plundered a sloop commanded by a Captain Beer while cruising off Rhode Island in late February of 1717. Captain Bellamy to Captain Beer:

I am sorry they [Bellamy’s crew] won’t let you have your sloop again, for I scorn to do any one a mischief when it is not for my advantage; - the sloop, we must sink her, and she might be of use to you. Though you are a sneaking puppy, and so are all those who will submit to be governed by laws which rich men have made for their own security; for the cowardly whelps have not the courage otherwise to defend what they get by knavery; but-ye altogether:-them for a pack of crafty rascals, and you, who serve them, for a parcel of hen-hearted numskulls. They vilify us, the scoundrels do, when there is only this difference, they rob the poor under the cover of law, forsooth, and we plunder the rich under the protection of our own courage. Had you not better make one of us, than sneak after these villains of employment?

Captain Beer rejected throwing in with the pirates.

#talk like a pirate day #pirates #wood engravings #books #illustration #history #mizzou #special collections #rare books #fb #john k

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fromthedust · 2 years

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Fritz Eichenberg (German/American 1901-1990)

A selection of his wood engraving illustrations for Tales of Edgar Allan Poe - Random House - published in 1944

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

A Descent into the Maelström

Fall of the House of Usher

The Gold Bug

The Masque of the Red Death

The Pit and the Pendulum

The Sphinx

The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade

Mellonta Tauta

The Imp of the Perverse

The Tell-Tale Heart

Vignette for Part I

Vignette for Part II

Vignette for Part III

Vignette for Part IV

Vignette for Part V

Vignette for Part VI

#art by others #other's artwork #Fritz Eichenberg #Edgar Allan Poe #wood engravings #print #illustration

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michael-atkin · 5 months

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‘The narrow Lane’ wood engraving on boxwood

#printmaking #iron printing press #letterpress #wood engravings #limited edition #art print #handmade

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ehj3 · 1 year

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TRONIE ALONIE

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness. She says and does horrid things, and you see only charm.” —Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata I thought it would be fun to take “it” “up a level” and draw a “tronie” (Dutch for face, “Pearl Girl” is one of these) based on an AI-generated image…

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#AI-generated images #art #art and beauty #art appreciators #art therapy #artisans #capitalism #Damien Hirst #eric wayne #L&039;art pour l&039;art #Leo Tolstoy #photoshop #post modernism #robert crumb #tronie #Women Laughing Alone With Salad #wood engravings

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ilikeit-art · 7 months

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#bamboo #wood engraving #bamboo & tea home #east asia #proficiency #skillful

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icecreamwithjackdaniels · 6 months

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Lionel Lindsay, "The White Peacock", 1925

#Lionel Lindsay #art #wood engraving #engraving #australian art #animals in art #ornithology #wildlife #printmaking #print #fine art #20th century art #1920s art

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uwmspeccoll · 3 months

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Wood Engraving Wednesday

LAWRENCE KEATY

In this wood engraving entitled Taipei, American artist Lawrence Keaty (b. 1986) offers us a vision of the city he was born in and where he lived when he made this print in 2020. The print is made from six separate blocks and together measure 65cm x 35cm (25.5" x 14"). The print was selected by my Wisconsin colleagues Tracy Honn and Jim Moran for inclusion in the Fourth Triennial Exhibition 2020-2022 of the American American wood engravers society, the Wood Engravers’ Network (WEN). This image is from the catalog for that travelling show.

Lawrence Keaty received a BA from Kenyon College with a major in Studio Art and he earned his MFA from Washington University in St. Louis in 2010. He taught English in Taiwan and South Korea from 2011 to 2019 and then worked as a writer/editor for Global Village Organization in Taipei for a year before returning to the U.S. (New Mexico) where he currently works as a UX/UI designer as well as a professional artist.

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– MAX, Head, Special Collections and juror for the WEN Fifth Triennial Exhibition.

#Wood Engraving Wednesday #wood engravings #wood engravers #Lawrence Keaty #Taipei #Wood Engraver's Network #WEN #WEN Fourth Triennial Exhibition #exhibitions #exhibition catalogs

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thefugitivesaint · 2 months

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