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Item Description
Original engraving, signed artist proof of Alice in the Gentleman's Chair. It is from Barry Moser's Pennyroyal Press 1982 edition of Through the Looking-Glass. This print is a wood engraving. It is unframed. Overall measurement is approximately 16 1/2" x 11". The image size is approximately 12" x 6".
Item Special Note
Barry Moser is one of the world's great book designers and illustrators. Added to that, he is a virtuoso wood engraver, a painter, a designer, a publisher, an author, and a frequent lecturer on the art of the book.
Moser was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1940. After college, he moved to New England and devoted himself to teaching and to learning for himself the crafts of etching and wood engraving. He later studied printing and typography at the Gehenna Press under the tutelage of Harold McGrath and Leonard Baskin.
Since 1969, when he composed his first line of hand-set type, Moser has illustrated some of the most beautiful private press books. World renowned for his children's illustrations, wood engravings, watercolors, and reinterpretations of the classics, including the Pennyroyal Press editions of Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, Frankenstein, Huckleberry Finn, The Wizard of Oz, and the Pennyroyal Caxton Edition of the Holy Bible. Mr. Moser's art is represented in numerous library and museum collections. His work has been published in more than two hundred books for children and adults.
This artwork is unframed.
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