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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14yrs ago
Author:
Deck, Norris
Illustrator:
Le Keux, John
Illustrator:
Bonner, George Frederick
Illustrator:
Byfield, Mary
Illustrator:
Sly, Stephen
Illustrator:
Jewitt, Thomas Orlando Sheldon
Printer:
Metcalfe, William
Publisher:
Bell and Daldy
Illustrator:
Cranach, Lucas, the elder
Publisher:
Hirth, Georg
Printmaker:
Gill, Eric
Publisher:
Golden Cockerel Press
Printmaker:
Gill, Eric
Publisher:
Golden Cockerel Press
Publisher:
Birmingham Public Libraries
Printer:
Whittington Press
Illustrator:
Weissenborn, Hellmuth
Author:
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Illustrator:
Hassall, Joan
Designer:
Hassall, Joan
Publisher:
Hopetown Press
Printer:
J. and J. Gray
Author:
Burns, Robert (poet)
Compiler:
Ferguson, John De Lancey
Illustrator:
Hassall, Joan
Publisher:
Limited Editions Club
Designer:
Dreyfus, John
Printer:
Robert Maclehose and Co. Ltd
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