The Woodcut Annual (4 vols) (1927-1930)

The Woodcut Annual was a four-volume series edited by Herbert Furst and published between 1927 and 1930 by The Fleuron Limited. Each volume focused on woodcut art and featured contributions from notable artists and printmakers of the time.

Volume 1: Binding paper designed by Paul Nash. Contents:

• A Commercial Art Studio in the Seventeenth Century – By Herbert Furst
• The Golden Cockerel Press – By Robert Gibbings
• Intaglio Printing from Wood Blocks – By Eric Gill, T.S.D.
• Woodcut Patterns – By Paul Nash
• A List of English and German Books with Woodcut Illustrations Published During the Year 1926
• Fifteen Contemporary Woodcuts:
  • English: Douglas Percy Bliss, Eric Daglish, Eric Gill, B. Hughes-Stanton, John Nash, Eric Ravilious
  • French: Siméon, Boullaire, Le Breton
  • German: Klemm, Nolde, Gundermann
  • Italian: Giulio Cisari
  • Russian: Kravchenko, Forsky

Condition: light wear to extremities of boards. Small pink mark to front board.  Previous owner’s signature and stain to front-pastedown, otherwise very good.

Volume 2:  Binding paper designed by Enid Marx. Contents:

• Woodcut Wall-Paper: Past and Future – By Herbert Furst. Illustrated
• The Woodcut Playing-Card – By Cyril G.E. Bunt. Illustrated
• The Tools of the Wood-Engraver – By Douglas Percy Bliss. Illustrated
• Frans Masereel and His Woodcuts – By Edmund Bucher. Illustrated
• A List of English, German, and French Books with Woodcut Illustrations Published During 1927
• Fifteen Contemporary Woodcuts:
  • English: David Jones, Hester Sainsbury, Paul Nash, William Kermode
  • French: Hermann Paul, Lucien Boucher, Sonia Lewitzka
  • Czechoslovak: Max Švabinský, Petr Dillinger
  • Hungarian: Kaesz
  • Polish: Wladislaw Skoczylas
  • Russian: Serguiej Kolesnikov
  • Norwegian: Olaf Willums
  • United States: Rockwell Kent, Wharton Esherick

Condition: boards a little worn to extremities, otherwise very good.

Volume 3:  Binding paper designed by Althea Wiloughby. Contents:

• Jean Michel Papillon – By Herbert Furst. Illustrated
• The Wood-Engravings of John Nash – By W.A. Thorpe. Illustrated
• Wood and Metal in the Invention of Printing – By Victor Scholderer. Illustrated
• German Woodcut Lettering – By Dr. Julius Rodenberg. Illustrated
• A Glossary of Common Terms Used in Xylography
• Fourteen Contemporary Woodcuts:
  • English: Gwendolen Raverat, Grace Rogers, Tirzah Garwood, Eric Jones, Gertrude Hermes, W. Morgan
  • Austrian: Hans André
  • Russian: Vladimir Favorski, Andrej Gontcharoff, Yefim Mimin, Nicolas Brümmer
  • German: Franz M. Jansen
  • French: Aristide Maillol
  • Dutch: J. Franken

Condition: some spotting to endpapers and pastedowns. Boards a little rubbed to extremities, otherwise very good.

Volume 4:  Binding paper designed by Harry Carter. Contents:

• The Significance of Bewick and his School of Wood-engraving – By Herbert Furst. Illustrated
• Woodcut Writing-books– By WA.F. Johnson. Illustrated
• Twenty Contemporary Woodcuts–

Condition: boards a little tanned and rubbed to extremities. Some faint spotting to endpapers, otherwise very good.