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37. ([tag]Bird & Bull Press[/tag]) In Black & White. A wood-engraver’s odyssey by Wesley Bates. Newtown. 2005. 74p. 10.5” x7.375”. Wood engravings throughout, and a four-color fold-out wood engraving. Printed on Zerkall mouldmade paper. Composed in Dante types by Michael and Winifred Bixler. Bound at the Campbell-Logan Bindery in black Japanese cloth with red leather title label and black and white wood-engraved paper label on front board. Red cloth slipcase. One in an edition of 140 copies. Fine Bates writes: "I was given a set of wood engraving tools for Christmas in 1980. I was married then and on a whim, my wife gave me the tools and a couple of end grain blocks to see if I would be interested. At art school I had been very involved in making wood cuts, so her gift was not far from the known, but at that point in my life I was only aware of wood engraving as the name of a related medium." - Prospectus. Bates' work as a professional illustrator includes the medium of scraperboard, which produces an image that can appear to be a woodengraving. The process ... is explained and a comparative example is included.

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