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

by F. Morley Fletcher

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Meadowsweet.
Collotype reproduction of a woodblock print by the Author.
(Frontispiece.)

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

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