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One of two torch bearers on facing pages beneath Act III, Scene II where the players begin the play ‘The Mousetrap’.
The illustration appears on p.91…

Claudius rises ashen from his seat after watching the poisoning of Gonzago and calls for light and the end to the play. To Hamlet his…

Hamlet has slain the eavesdropping Polonius and drags him from his mother’s chamber.
The illustration appears on p.113 of the English and p.119 of the German,…

Act 5, scene 2 and Hamlet approaches King Claudius with his sword.

The edition of 90 were created from casts, each to be individually hand-painted although others from the edition remained unpainted, for instance the one he…

Magnificent and extremely large design for the tombstone of Hannah Boulter which can be found in the cemetery of St Egwin's Church, Norton and Lenchwick,…

Like Buckland Wright’s engraving ‘Hindu Dancer’, this work was inspired by a drawing of the French-Indian dancer and choreographer Mme Nyota Inyoka (1896-1971). Inyoka was…

Buckland Wright was inspired to make this engraving by a drawing of the French-Indian dancer and choreographer Mme Nyota Inyoka (1896-1971). Inyoka was very famous…

Some of John Buckland Wright’s most original, dramatic and large-scale engravings were made by John Buckland Wright after he had read D.H. Lawrence’s Apocalypse. He…

A very good impression of the engraving made by Jones for an edition of Everyman suggested as a project by Robert Gibbings which was announced…

An immaculate impression, originally intended as a book illustration but only appearing as a numbered proof.

Two women in conversation with an Italian basket, or cannelo, in the foreground

Best known for her wood engravings illustrating rural landscapes and agricultural workers in England, Europe and the American South, Clare Leighton (1898-1989) illustrated at least…

Both of these are wood engravings for Edgar Allan Poe’s Masque of the Red Death, executed in 1930 and published by the Halcyon Press in…

Originally in the collection of The National Trust but deaccessioned.
This linocut was originally made for Cotehele, a National Trust property in Cornwall. It was cut…

Ron King is probably the most important book artist working in Britain today and continues to produce outstanding, innovative work, leading the way in this…

Proof of a design, which in its first state had been used on the cover of Saint Bartholomew’s Hospital Journal in 1938.

John Gray had been a young poet and friend of Oscar Wilde in 1890s London and was rumoured to be the origin of Dorian Gray.…

A gentle and tender image of the Madonna and Child.
The second state is the only one that appears in Physick.

The engraving was made for the frontispiece forThe Lost Child and Other Stories by Mulk Raj Anand and published by Messrs. J.A. Allen & Co.…