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Illustrated with elegant and classic copper-plate engravings

(Wadsworth, Edward) Sailing Ships and Barges of the Western World, Mediterranean and the Adriatic Seas. A series of copper plates engraved in the line manner by Edward Wadsworth. Colored by hand, with an introduction and brief descriptions by Bernard Windeler. The Hazelwood Books. Frederick Etchells & Hugh McDonald. Curwen Press. London. 1926. Xv, 79p [2]. 122” x 8”. Engraved title-page. Copper-plate engravings printed by A. Alexander & Sons. Set in Rudolf Koch’s Kursiv, printed on Zanders handmade paper at the Curwen Press. Quarter cream and orange buckram over boards, an illustration on the front cover in gilt; title in gilt on the spine. No. 184 in an edition of 450 copies. Spine faded, minor spotting on endpapers, else very good.

“Edward Wadsworth (1889-1949), painter, draughtsman, woodcutter and copper engraver, was associated with Roger Fry’s Omega Workshop, and with the Rebel Arts Centre of Wyndham Lewis and the Vorticists. Wadsworth had a considerable impact as a woodcutter on the newly revived school of wood-engraving, with his angular, boldly faceted prints of ships and machinery, in striking contrast to his delicate, precise engravings for Sailing Ships.” – Book Illustrators of the Twentieth Century, p. 311.

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