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Lost & found : Rachel Reckitt's book illustrations, including the complete set of woodblocks engraved for "The Mill on the Floss," & what was lost in their making

Title
  1. Lost & found : Rachel Reckitt's book illustrations, including the complete set of woodblocks engraved for "The Mill on the Floss," & what was lost in their making / by Hal Bishop.
Published by
  1. Risbury, Herefordshire : Whittington Press, 2010.
Author
  1. Bishop, Hal

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Additional authors
  1. Macgregor, Miriam
  2. Eliot, George, 1819-1880.
  3. Whittington Press. prt
  4. Gloucester Typesetting. tyg
Description
  1. xii, 57 pages, [44] pages of plates : illustrations; 27 cm, in case 28 cm
Summary
  1. In 1950, the publisher Paul Elek commissioned Rachel Reckitt to engrave sixteen whole-page illustrations for George Eliot's THE MILL ON THE FLOSS ... The blocks turned out to be Rachel's finest illustrative work, but Elek went into receivership and tragically [the engravings] were never published. The images were exhibited for the first time in 1997, from proofs that Rachel had taken after engraving the blocks. Shortly afterwards the blocks themselves came to light, when it was realised that the non-appearance of the engravings had been a double tragedy, for on the reverse of the blocks were parts of other much larger engravings done by Rachel before the war. Due to the wartime shortage of boxwood she had sawn the blocks down to less than half size. Lost and Found will show all sixteen of the blocks for The Mill on the Floss for the first time, as well as reconstructing the larger palimpsest images on the reverse of the blocks. -- Publisher's description.
Alternative title
  1. Lost and found
  2. Rachel Reckitt's book illustrations
Subject
  1. Women wood-engravers > Great Britain
  2. Wood-engraving, English > 20th century > Specimens
  3. Reckitt, Rachel > Art collections
  4. Eliot, George, 1819-1880 > Mill on the Floss > Illustrations
  5. Reckitt, Rachel > Criticism and interpretation
Contents
  1. Lost & found -- The Mill on the Floss -- The engravings -- Aftermath -- Tea at Golsoncott / Miriam Macgregor.
Call number
  1. Rare Books 18-9
Note
  1. This edition of 225 copies is set in 14-point Van Dijck at Gloucester Typesetting, & printed at Whittington on Zerkall mould-made papers. 40 copies are half-bound in Oasis leather & contain a set of proofs of the engravings for The Mill on the Floss -- Colophon.
Author
  1. Bishop, Hal.
Title
  1. Lost & found : Rachel Reckitt's book illustrations, including the complete set of woodblocks engraved for "The Mill on the Floss," & what was lost in their making / by Hal Bishop.
Imprint
  1. Risbury, Herefordshire : Whittington Press, 2010.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Local note
  1. NYPL copy - "Copy no: 155."
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Added author
  1. Macgregor, Miriam.
  2. Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Mill on the Floss.
  3. Whittington Press. Printer
  4. Gloucester Typesetting. Typographer
ISBN
  1. 1854280899
  2. 9781854280893
Research call number
  1. Rare Books 18-9
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