Flight, Claude ~ The Art and Craft of Lino Cutting and Printing

FIRST UK PRINTING : B. T. Batsford, Ltd., London : 1934

The First UK printing published by B. T. Batsford, Ltd., London in 1934. Tall 8vo., cloth-backed pictorial boards featuring a London street scene; lettered in black along the backstrip; with a frontis illustration by Eileen Mayo, and numerous other black and white and full-colour illustrations throughout on glossy paper; The BOOK a near Fine copy; a couple of faint marks to boards, a little rubbed at edges with the slightest hint of fraying to the spine ends; penned previous owner's name in red to the front free endpaper; a couple of minor marks to the paste-downs and endpapers. The book is protected in a removable Mylar cover. The book is dedicated to the Scottish artist Iain McNab, "whose encouragement of lino-cut colour printing made the first exhibition of work in this medium possible." The Scottish artist Iain Macnab was was the founder and principal of the Grosvenor School of Modern Art, at which the art of original linocut was first pioneered in the UK. Gathering around him a team of talented young artists and teachers, among them Claude Flight, Cyril Power and Sybil Andrews, the school taught according to his principles of rhythms, counter-rhythms, sweeping lines and carefully organised sequences of differing colours. It was Claude Flight that developed the art of lino cutting to its full potential while at the school, and who taught it most predominantly. There, he developed the art form to its full potential, and helped to develop the careers of several artists who were drawn to the the school, including Margaret Barnard, Leonard Beaumont, Dorrit Black and Diana Drew, some of whom are represented in the present title. Chapters are divided into the art, design, cutting, printing, and alterations of linocuts, with a final chapter on the rise and future of it as an art form. The introduction is provided by J. E. Barton. Elusive in this condition.

BINDING: Hardcover
CONDITION: Near-Fine