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Out of the Wood: British Woodcuts and Wood Engravings, 1890-1945
Out of the Wood British Woodcuts and Wood Engravings 1890-1945 Author:Simon Brett Simon Brett is acknowledged as one of the masters of wood engraving of the past half-century. He was inspired to take up engraving in the early 1960s by his teacher Clifford Webb at St Martin’s School of Art in London, where he was principally studying as a painter. He illustrated a number of books in the 1980s and published them under his... more » own imprint, Paulinus Press, winning the Francis Williams Illustration Award for the first, The Animals of Saint Gregory, in 1981. Since 1989, when he retired from teaching at Marlborough College, he has worked exclusively as a wood engraver, principally as a book illustrator. Although his work has appeared in books from such publishers as David R. Godine [Pushkin’s The Gypsies and other poems] and in 26 images for the New Testament portion of The Reader’s Digest Illustrated Bible, the widest selection is to be seen in books from the Folio Society, for which he has illustrated many classics, among them Jane Eyre, Clarissa, The Poems of John Keats, The Confessions of St Augustine, Legends of the Grail, Middlemarch, and Legends of the Ring. Beyond this, his engravings have been commissioned by many fine presses in Great Britain, the United States, and Canada – including ours.