WOOD, George Henry. Twenty Woodcuts. With a foreword by John F. Greenwood. Manchester: Sherratt & Hughes. 1927. Softcover wraps. 4to. First edition and only. Beige wraps enclosing the twenty excellent lithographs printed on thick tissue paper and printed rectos only. This copy signed and inscribed by the artist and dated May 1943, only a few years before his death. A very good copy. Gently bumped to extremities, a little rubbed and slightly nicked externally, the wraps just a little creased shown, with some milder creases to tissue and to some pages, though largely fine.
Wood, born in Bristol but spending much of his life in the North, namely in Bradford and Bingley, was a self-taught artist who seemed to pick the arts up later in life. A trained statistician, he worked on the statistical staff on the Labour Department of the Board of Trades, later being appointed Secretary of the Huddersfield Woollen Manufacturers’ Association while teaching statistics at Huddersfield Technical College. He served in both World Wars, in statistical roles, but all the meanwhile had taught himself the art of woodblock printing, this his first published foray into the medium—an impressive feat. Scarce, especially so inscribed.
WOOD, George Henry. Twenty Woodcuts. With a foreword by John F. Greenwood. Manchester: Sherratt & Hughes. 1927. Softcover wraps. 4to. First edition and only. Beige wraps enclosing the twenty excellent lithographs printed on thick tissue paper and printed rectos only. This copy signed and inscribed by the artist and dated May 1943, only a few years before his death. A very good copy. Gently bumped to extremities, a little rubbed and slightly nicked externally, the wraps just a little creased shown, with some milder creases to tissue and to some pages, though largely fine.
Wood, born in Bristol but spending much of his life in the North, namely in Bradford and Bingley, was a self-taught artist who seemed to pick the arts up later in life. A trained statistician, he worked on the statistical staff on the Labour Department of the Board of Trades, later being appointed Secretary of the Huddersfield Woollen Manufacturers’ Association while teaching statistics at Huddersfield Technical College. He served in both World Wars, in statistical roles, but all the meanwhile had taught himself the art of woodblock printing, this his first published foray into the medium—an impressive feat. Scarce, especially so inscribed.
