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Posted by: Patrick Hastings
In another installment in Bibliomania's series on how books were made in the 15th-18th centuries, this post describes the processes of making woodcut illustrations, copperplate engravings, and etchings.
Posted in: 15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, Education Outreach, Famous Printers, Fine Prints, History of the Book, Illustrated Book
Posted by: Patrick Hastings
Joyceans around the world celebrate Bloomsday every year on June 16 because it is the single day on which James Joyce's modernist novel Ulysses is set. Robert Motherwell, a prominent Abstract Expressionist artist, was a lifelong reader of Ulysses. His etchings illustrate The Arion Press's monumental 1988 edition of the novel.
Posted in: 20th Century, Famous Printers, Fine Press, Fine Prints, Illustrated Book, Literature
Posted by: Amanda Zimmerman
Born in Harlem on August 2nd, 1924, novelist and essayist James Baldwin (1924 – 1987) is regarded as one of America’s greatest writers. At the time of his death on December 1st, 1987, Baldwin was working with sculptor and printmaker Leonard Baskin (1922–2000) of the Gehenna Press to publish a fine press edition of an unpublished work. Gypsy and Other Poems features six of Baldwin's poems that reveal an intimate, introspective side of the writer.
Posted in: 20th Century, Fine Prints, Literature
Posted by: Marianna Stell
The Library of Congress has several important works by the printmaker, painter, and art theorist, Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), including his famous engraving, Melencolia I (1514), and his Treatise on Measurement (1525).
Posted in: 16th Century, Fine Prints, History of Mathematics, History of Science, Illustrated Book, Manuscript and Letterpress (Hand Press)