Woodcuts & Wood Engravings: Techniques & History by Hans Alexander Mueller (1939) - Collectible Hardcover with Dust Jacket - Perfect for Art Collectors & Printmaking Enthusiasts

Mueller, Hans Alexander. Woodcuts & Wood Engravings: How I Make Them (New York: Pynson Printers, 1939).

English, one of 3000 copies, a Near Fine book in a Good dust jacket, Very Good overall, HC, 4to, 13" x 10", 187 pp., including illustrations.

ISBN: N/A

One of 3000 copies. Near Fine blue-green cloth-covered boards, gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Covers have slight wear and rubbing to head and spine and tips, else pristine and intact, binding tight, sharp tips. Good beige paper dust jacket with black lettering on front panel and spine. Dust jacket is browned and has many chips and closed tears along edges and head and tail of spine (largest chip at head of spine is 1" x 2," else clean and intact. Dust jacket protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. Pages have light age toning, else pristine and intact. Replete with illustrations in black-and-white and color. A beautiful how-to book by Hans Alexander Mueller (1888-1963), a German-American printmaker, illustrator, designer, painter, and author. He is perhaps best-known for his woodcuts and wood engravings. Mueller instructs readers on his own methods of making woodcuts and wood engravings. His instructions are accompanied by his illustrations. The latter half of the book is a textless showcase of his woodcuts, wood engravings, engraved vignettes and initials, and example book pages with his art. Back colophon: "Of this book, Woodcuts & Wood Engravings: How I Make Them, by Hans Alexander Mueller, there were made three thousand copies, and two hundred and fifty portfolios, by the Pynson Printers of New York; all the plates were made by the author and the printing completed in November MCMXXXIX." Front flap includes an appreciation of Mueller by fellow printmaker Lynd Ward.