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Title: Wood-Block Printing
A Description of the Craft of Woodcutting and Colour Printing Based on the Japanese Practice

Author: F. Morley Fletcher

Release Date: December 26, 2006 [eBook #20195]

Language: English

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The Artistic Crafts Series of Technical Handbooks
Edited By W. R. Lethaby

WOOD-BLOCK PRINTING

A Description of the Craft of
Woodcutting & Colour Printing
Based on the Japanese Practice

by

F. MORLEY FLETCHER

With Drawings and Illustrations by
the Author and A. W. Seaby.
Also Collotype Reproductions
of Various Examples of
Printing, and an Original
Print Designed and Cut by
the Author Printed by Hand
on Japanese Taper

[Illustration: Meadowsweet.
Collotype reproduction of a woodblock print by the Author.
(_Frontispiece_.)]

London
Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd.
Parker Street, Kingsway, W.C.2
Bath, Melbourne, Toronto, New York
Printed By
Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd.
Bath, England

EDITOR'S PREFACE

In issuing these volumes of a series of Handbooks on the Artistic
Crafts, it will be well to state what are our general aims.

In the first place, we wish to provide trustworthy text-books of
workshop practice, from the points of view of experts who have
critically examined the methods current in the shops, and putting aside
vain survivals, are prepared to say what is good workmanship, and to set
up a standard of quality in the crafts w