Beschreibung:

An album of 340 artist's proofs of woodcuts and wood engravings by Gwen Raverat, circa 1928-1939, compiled by the artist as a record of her output, with handwritten index in ink at the front of the volume, various woodcuts, mostly unsigned, but including 10 signed and one initialled, ranging from illustrations for Daphnis & Chloe to engravings for Sterne's Sentimental Journey (published by Penguin in 1938), various sizes, all contained in original folio album bound in plain grey cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down, large 4to (335 x 265 mm, 13.25 x 10.5 ins) A highly important album of examples of Gwen Raverat's output as a wood engraver between the years 1928 and 1939, compiled by the artist herself, which includes the illustrations for Daphnis & Chloe (Ashendene Press, 1934), the series of 6 prints of rivers commissioned by the General Omnibus Company in 1929, illustrations for Farmers Glory, published by Faber & Faber in 1934, Mountains and Molehills by Frances Cornford, published by the Cambridge University Press in 1934, Four Tales from Andersen, published by Cambridge University Press in 1935, The Runaway, by Elizabeth Anna Hart, published by Macmillan in 1936, various views of Cambridge, and the remarkable pastoral colour woodcut entitled The Golden Age (1937). With a typewritten letter to Gwen Raverat from Margaret Pilkington Secretary of the Society of Wood Engravers, dated November 13th 1934, giving details of the agreed terms for the commission of prints and commission on orders, as well as a similar proposed price list (dated 1949), a typescript note regarding the production of stage designs for the ballet of Blake's Book of Job, with music by Vaughan Williams, signed in ink by the artist, and a typewritten note to Gwen Raverat from Robert Gibbings dated 12 December 1949, giving his opinion as to the price of her woodblock prints. (1)