Eight drawings, primarily of women and girls, are tacked on a wall and it appears that there are other drawings to the right of the camera. These are eight of the eighteen illustrations that appeared in "Lovey Mary" by Alice Hegan Rice...
"The Canterbury Tales", prologue, opening page, in "The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer," Kelmscott Press, 1896, woodcut illustration by Burne-Jones, border decorations and initials by William Morris.
Collage novel, plate. "He used Victorian steel engravings, which he cut and reassembled with fanatical illusionistic precision." (p.225); [Animal is a pangolin, a scaly anteater]
Publishers and publishing-- Kentucky-- Louisville-- History-- Sources; Printing--Kentucky--Louisville; Book illustrations; Technical illustrations; Textbooks
John P. Morton and Company was a publisher based in Louisville, Kentucky for much of the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries.
The University of Louisville’s Margaret M. Bridwell Art Library has between 1300 and 1400 woodblocks the...
Engraving, from John G. Stedman's Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America.
Woodcut illustration for "Le Livre des Masques, Portraits Symbolistes" by Remy de Gourmont, Mercure de France, Paris, 1896-1898. Published in Le Figaro, Paris, 18 September 1886.
