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147 pp. Introduction by Judith Collins. With 16 tipped-in color plates and many black & white plates and text illustrations, one folding. Folio. Original gray buckram, spine lettered in gilt within a small gilt-ruled field, front cover pictorially stamped in maroon, patterned endpapers, in buckram & board slipcase. 1 of 450 copies. First Edition.

A fascinating, beautifully produced history and catalogue of original prints made by artists associated with the Bloomsbury Group, including Vanessa Bell, [Dora] Carrington, Roger Fry, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Duncan Grant, E. McKnight Kauffer, etc. Provides an insightful account of the personalities and varying artistic skills of the individual engravers but also summarizes their development in modern times of the wood-& linoleum-cut. An essential work for anyone interested in the Bloomsbury Group or in book design and illustration in the early part of the 20th century.