Nature's Engraver

Jenny Uglow

RRP: £20.00

Publisher: FABER & FABER

Publication Date : 05/10/2006

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

A short and beautiful biography of the artist, Thomas Bewick, whose miniature creations changed the way we view the world. A story of violent change and radical politics in the eighteenth-century, of a past whose energy and power still haunts us today, and the beginning of our lasting obsession with the natural world.

Publisher's description:

Tells the story of the farmer's son from Tyneside who never courted fame yet revolutionised wood-engraving and influenced book illustration for a century to come. This is a story of violent change and radical politics, of Newcastle and the Tyne, workshops and family life, mines and fells, and the sea and the fierce west winds.

ISBN: 9780571223749