A relief process in which the design is cut into and printed from the grain end of a wood block; distinct from "woodcut (process)," which is a relief process using the plank side of a wood block.
This term has 4,746 records attributed within our system.
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300053303
14yrs ago
Writer:
Randle, John
Author:
Gant, Roland
Illustrator:
Phipps, Howard
Publisher:
Whittington Press
Binder (person):
Fine Bindery
Author:
Shakespeare, William
Illustrator:
Stone, Reynolds
Publisher:
Nonesuch Press
Printer:
William Brendon and Son Ltd.
Author:
Gant, Roland
Illustrator:
Phipps, Howard
Publisher:
Whittington Press
Binder (person):
Woolnough & Co.
Author:
Walton, Izaak
Illustrator:
Phipps, Howard
Publisher:
Perdix Press
Binder (person):
Brown, Frank
Author:
Defoe, Daniel
Publisher:
Folio Society
Illustrator:
Lawrence, John
Printer:
Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press)
Printer:
Mackay, W. & J.
Binder (person):
Mackay, W. & J.
Author:
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Contributor:
Hewlett, Dorothy
Publisher:
Folio Society
Illustrator:
Stone, Reynolds
Printer:
Stamperia Valdónega
Binder (person):
C. & H. T. Evans Ltd.
Author:
Darwin, Charles
Illustrator:
Gibbings, Robert John
Publisher:
Limited Editions Club
Designer:
Dreyfus, John
Printer:
Cambridge University Press
Author:
Frost, Robert
Printer:
Spiral Press
Illustrator:
Kredel, Fritz
Typography:
Blumenthal, Joseph
Author:
Hardy, Thomas (writer)
Contributor:
Cantwell, Robert
Illustrator:
Parker, Agnes Miller
Publisher:
Limited Editions Club
Designer:
Dreyfus, John
Printer:
Cambridge University Press
Author:
Hardy, Thomas (writer)
Publisher:
Folio Society
(Possibly)
Illustrator:
Reddick, Peter
Printer:
Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press)
Binder (person):
Mackay, W. & J.
Author:
Collier, John
Illustrator:
Hughes-Stanton, Blair Rowlands
Publisher:
Nonesuch Press
Printer:
R. and R. Clark Ltd.
Author:
Perrault, Charles
Editor:
Childers, J. Saxon
Illustrator:
Quick, W. M. R.
Publisher:
Nonesuch Press
Printer:
R. and R. Clark Ltd.
Author:
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
Editor:
Rosenberg, John D.
Illustrator:
Stone, Reynolds
Publisher:
Limited Editions Club
Designer:
Dreyfus, John
Printer:
University Printing House
Printer:
Crutchley, Brooke
Illustrator:
Nash, Paul
Publisher:
Nonesuch Press
Printer:
Curwen Press
Illustrator:
Ravilious, Eric William
Publisher:
Lanston Monotype Corporation
Author:
Street, A. G. (Arthur George)
Illustrator:
Raverat, Gwendolen
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Author:
Linklater, Eric
Illustrator:
Stone, Reynolds
Publisher:
Rupert Hart-Davis
Author:
Woolf, Virginia
Author:
Raverat, Gwendolen
Author:
Raverat, Jacques Pierre
Illustrator:
Raverat, Gwendolen
Editor:
Pryor, William
Publisher:
Clear Books
Designer:
Stone, Humphrey
Binder (person):
Smith Settle Limited
Printer:
Lawrence, Simon
Author:
Gibbings, Robert John
Illustrator:
Gibbings, Robert John
Publisher:
J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd
Illustrator:
Carter, Will
Publisher:
Rampant Lions Press
Paper maker:
Abbey Mills
Illustrator:
Skargon, Yvonne
Author:
Wilde, Oscar
Publisher:
Silent Books
Compiler:
Brett, Simon
Illustrator:
Gaudaen, Gerard
Publisher:
Silent Books
Author:
Leighton, Clare
Illustrator:
Leighton, Clare
Publisher:
Victor Gollancz
Printer:
Camelot Press
Contributor:
Sandford, Christopher
Publisher:
Sandford, Christopher
Publisher:
Golden Cockerel Press
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