[Rarebooks] FS: ENDGRAIN: CONTEMPORARY WOOD ENGRAVING IN NORTH AMERICA, 1/50 copies with 121 Original Wood Engravings

[Charles Agvent]

AINSLE, Patricia & RITSCHER, Paul. ENDGRAIN: CONTEMPORARY WOOD ENGRAVING 
IN NORTH AMERICA. (Mission, British Columbia): Barbarian Press, 1994. 
First Edition. Quarto 7-1/2" x 10-1/2") bound in full black leather with 
patterned endpapers and contained in a black morocco-backed drop-back 
box with the sides covered by the same patterned paper. Of a total 
edition of 430 copies, this is one of only 50 lettered copies of this 
magnificent production with each of the 121 wood engravings, each by a 
different artist, printed from the block. SIGNED by the publishers, 
Crispin and Jan Elsted, on a page bound before the colophon page, this 
smaller limitation also includes a numbered and SIGNED tipped-in 
frontispiece engraving by Rosemary Kilbourn. The 121 contemporary 
Canadian and American artists represented include the little known as 
well as giants such as Leonard Baskin, John DePol, Michael McCurdy, and 
Barry Moser. A beautiful book and a great reference work. Fine in 
drop-back box, as issued, of this important book. (#012822)        $3,500.00

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