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Woodcuts, U.S.A.

Title
Woodcuts, U.S.A. / by Helen West Heller ; with an introduction by John Taylor Arms.
Author
Heller, Helen West, 1872-1955
Publication
  • New York : Oxford University Press, 1947.
  • ©1947

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Additional Authors
  • Arms, John Taylor, 1887-1953
  • Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957
  • Oxford University Press, publisher.
  • Merrymount Press, printer.
Description
[43] p. : chiefly ill.; 31 cm.
Summary
16 quotations from canonical American authors spanning the 17th to the 20th centuries are paired with illustrations by Helen West Heller on opposing pages.
Subject
  • Wood-engraving > Specimens
  • Printing > Specimens
  • Printing
  • Wood-engraving
Genre/Form
  • Woodcuts
  • Specimens
  • Catalogs.
  • Woodcuts.
  • Non-adhesive bindings (Binding)
  • Artists' books – 20th century.
Note
  • Printed by D.B. Updike, the Merrymount Press, Boston.
  • This edition, limited to 750 copies, of which 150 are for sale, has been printed on Enfield Collotype paper from the original wood blocks cut by Helen West Heller.
Contents
The fourteenth illustration features a quotation from Gertrude Stein's Three lives.
LCCN
48010059
OCLC
  • ocm05761626
  • 5761626
  • SCSB-446448
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library