A Brief Account Of The Origin Of The Eragny Press And A Note On The Relation Of The Printed Book As A Work Of Art To Life
Автор:T. Sturge Moore Год: 2008 Издание:Книга по Требованию Страниц: 56 ISBN: 9781443774260 PREFACE. soon the Vale Tye will be withdrawn from circulation, the Eragny Press will continue its publications. The type will be that employed for the first time in the present volume. Collectors will perhaps be interested in a brief account of the origin of the Press a bibliography of the Eragny books up to the present departure, since in future the books will not only be decorated and printed under the immediate supervision of Mr. Pissarro, but set up in a type of his design first learned to draw from his father, in the fields far from any art school. One day M. Lepkre, the well known engraver, showed him how his tools were held, finding him interested,gave him two gravers and a scorper. Thus furnished with the means he made a start and taught himself with the result that in 1886 F. G. Dumas, commissioned him to illustrate a story, Mait Liziard, by Octave Mirbeau. Four woodcuts appeared, but the subscribers to the Review expressed so much disapproval of these illustrations,...
