LINO CUTTING AND PRINTING

First edition, first printing. Illustrated boards with a tan cloth spine lettered in black. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white by Claude Flight, C. W. Toovey, Stanislaus Brien, Margaret Barnard, and others. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the spine tips slightly worn, the corners a little rubbed, with a little faint toning and light marks to the boards. The internal front hinge is starting but holding firm. The contents, with a contemporary price label (3/6) to the front pastedown, are otherwise clean and bright throughout and without inscriptions or stamps.

An instructional book on linoleum cut printing, a technique which the British artist and printmaker Claude Flight (1881 - 1955) pioneered and popularised. Lino-cuts by children are included alongside the work of professional artists, demonstrating the technique's accessibility and exemplifying Flight's promotion of lino-cut as an affordable and easy method of printmaking which he passionately believed would make art available to a large amount of people, including within education.