WOOD THAT IS SUITABLE FOR MAKING WOODCUTS AND PREPARATIONS FOR DRAWING AND CUTTING A DESIGN

First edition thus, first printing. Original patterned boards with a blue cloth spine inlaid with a paper title label. With a frontispiece portrait which is a reproduction of a woodcut by Nicholas Caron. A fine copy, the binding square and firm. The contents are clean and bright throughout and without stamps or inscriptions.

Issued in a limited edition of 100 copies, this example is numbered 18. The text is taken from the third and fourth chapters of the first part of volume II of Jean Michel Papillon's 'Traité Historique et Pratique de la Gravure en Bois', first published in 1766. With a new preface by the designer, printer and binder Paul L. Kershaw.