The Art of the Reprint

A Genuinely Original Work The Art Of The Reprint Establishes The Reprint As A Vital Area Of Study. In Tightly Curated Encounters Between Extraordinary Twentieth-Century Artists And Beloved Nineteenth-Century Novels Clare Leighton Travels To Dorset To Minutely Observe Thomas Hardy''S Landscape For A 1929 The Return Of The Native (1878); Rockwell Kent Channels His Many Sea Journeys Into A 1930 Moby Dick (1851); Fritz Eichenberg Transposes The Churn And Isolation Of Fleeing Nazi Germany Onto Expressionistic Engravings For Charlotte Bront''S Jane Eyre (1847); And Joan Hassall Elucidates A Bright Social World At Miniature Scale For A 1975 Set Of The Complete Novels Of Jane Austen (1787-1817). Mediators Between Text And Book And Author And Reader These Artists Interpreted These Novels And Then Illustrated Their Interpretations Stunningly And Strangely In Wood Ink And Paper For Everyday Readers.