Wood Carving

<p><strong>WOOD CARVING: A Carefully Graduated Educational Course by Joseph Phillips 1896 - </strong>Produced from the rare original in the collection of Gary Roberts Publisher - www.toolemerapress.com</p><p><br></p><p><strong>WOOD CARVING: A Carefully Graduated Educational Course by Joseph Phillips 1896</strong> was published <em>...to fill a long-felt want for a graduated course of exercises these being suggested by a long and varied professional and teaching experience... by Joseph Phillips Medallist and Instructor of Wood Carving Modelling &c. in the counties of Lancashire Cheshire Cumberland and Notts and approved by the Home Arts and Industries Association Royal Albert Hall London.</em>Unlike many 19th century books on relief wood carving which feature only illustrative examples with little in the way of explanatory text <strong>WOOD CARVING: A Carefully Graduated Educational Course</strong> by Joseph Phillips provides a carefully graduated series of twelve lessons each of which is accompanied by a photograph of the relief carving discussed with annotations to explain the steps taken in the creation of the form.Grounded in the spirit of the British Arts & Crafts movement of the late 19th century <strong>WOOD CARVING: A Carefully Graduated Educational Course</strong> by Joseph Phillips is a one-of-a-kind text of value to the beginner the intermediate as well as the advanced carver who seeks to learn from a practitioner of the craft and of the period.</p>