222 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 27 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Introduction -- Part one: life -- A Limehouse lad: childhood apprenticeship and war -- The soldier returns: student years, marriage and first successes -- The good years: partnership: hard work and high living -- Divided: the Second World War and Phyllis Barnes -- On his own terms: life and teaching -- A literary interlude: the evidence of Ella's books -- Part two: work -- The story of Noah and other 'Clifford Webb books' -- Working methods: sketchbooks, watercolours, etchings and commissions -- The colour prints: a front line in the fifties -- Wood engraving: the continuing preoccupation -- The Golden Cockerel Press: where wood engraving and illustration meet -- Conclusion -- Proofing album -- Books illustrated by Clifford Webb -- Acknowledgements.
Subject Terms:
Webb, Clifford, 1895- | Wood-engravers -- Great Britain -- Biography. | Illustrators -- Great Britain -- Biography. | Webb, Clifford, 1895- | Illustrators. | Wood-engravers. | Great Britain.