- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: George Braziller Inc (15 Feb 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0807615366
- ISBN-13: 978-0807615362
- Product Dimensions: 30.4 x 23.7 x 2.7 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,129,332 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The combination of the woodcut-a print method devised early in the fifteenth century-with Johannes Gutenberg's revolutionary invention of printing with moveable type resulted in a powerful explosion of information and ideas. For the first time, it was possible to use a mechanised system to print identical copies of books containing both text and images. Featured in The Heavenly Craft are the earliest surviving examples of these books from throughout Western Europe, all printed within the first century after Gutenberg's invention. The contributors bring these rare books to life, exploring the evolution of the technique, composition, and colouration of the woodcut beginning with the earliest publications. Many of the woodcut designs grew out of the manuscript illumination, in which book illustrations were painstakingly executed by hand. The authors also present the distinguishing features of national style and taste, treating the reader to examples from Germany, Italy, France, Spain, and the Netherlands. In addition, The Heavenly Craft describes the provenance of these volumes, providing an account of how Lessing J. Rosenwald purchased them from heir to the Lea and Perrins fortune and later donated them to the Library of Congress. These early printed volumes are the predecessors of today's illustrated books. The Heavenly Craft celebrates these origins, making these early publications available to bibliophiles and print lovers.
About the Author
Daniel De Simone is the curator of the Lessing J.Rosenwald Collection at the Library of Congress. He was formerly the owner of an antiquarian book company and spent twenty-five years in the rare book trade.
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A seminal contribution to publishing history collections
9 Mar 2005
Format:Hardcover
Author Daniel De Simone is curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection at the Library of Congress, and his background lends well to an authoritative survey of 19th and 20th century scholarship on early woodcuts in hand-printed books. Other experts join in the production of A Heavenly Craft: The Woodcut In Early Printed Books with articles considering major woodcut book editions, from religious texts to period productions around the world. Add a healthy dose of color reproductions and fine close-ups and you have a seminal contribution to publishing history collections and supplemental reading lists -- as well as a specialty art library 'must'.
3 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Not what I expected
6 Oct 2007
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Again, the problem with buying unseen off the internet; being in love with the woodcuts of Durer and Altdorfer, I was hoping for an introduction to a wider range of such works by artists of the period. Unfortunately, what you get are not full page illustrations of the woodcuts, but photographs of the actual pages in the original books, curled edges and all, and usually in less than half-size so that one is straining to see the image. I presume this method of reproduction is meant for antiquarian book lovers, but certainly not for someone interested in the art. Know what you are getting and you won't be disappointed.
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