Pheasant and Wistaria: A Woodcut by Lionel Lindsay. The wood-engraving of Lionel Lindsay by Campbell Dodgson.

This is a rare or used book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

Kansas City: The Woodcut Society 1935. Folio in the original illustrated portfolio printed in black and light green ink. Text by C. Dodgson printed in double-column and the original woodcut measuring 22 x 12.5 cm neatly mounted and signed by the artist in the block and inscribed by him in pencil below the margin to Alfred Fowler (1889-1859) who founded the Woodcut Society in 1932. Colophon at end stating that this is copy No. 1 of a limitation of 200 copies printed exclusively for members of the Woodcut Society. Fine and extremely rare. Lionel Lindsay (1874-1961) born in Creswick near Ballarat Victoria was of the famous Lindsay clan of artists and writers. Lindsay started out as an illustrative journalist and went on to become an internationally recognised master printmaker his preferred mediums being etching and wood-engraving in the tradition of Thomas Bewick. Other significant influences on Lindsay's art include Charles Keene (see Item 54) and Albrecht Drer. Here offered in Dodgson's words is "a capital example of the art of the foremost wood-engraver of Australia."