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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. LIVRE D'ARTISTE, LIMITED EDITION suite of 52 woodengravings printed on ivory tissue laid paper by artist Cecil Wray Goodchild. Bound in veneer boards with cloth spine. Printed and published by Bark 'N' Rags Press, Los Angeles, CA. Edition of 100, with this being number 31. With a foreward by Rockwell D. Hunt, then the Dean of the University of Southern California. Original woodengravings are oencil signed and titled by the artist. Images of historical times in California from the prehistoric age (La Brea Tar Pits) to as indigenous tribe of the Los Angeles area to the arrival of galleon ships to the Gold Rush to the invention of the airplane (as a sign of the modern age). CONDITION: overall very good. Paper is clean and exhibits usual warping from the press that does not fully crease. Very light age tanning to sheet edges. Images are strong. Boards exhibit chipping on edges and corners and age tanning to edges; original label is intact but rubbed and lightly chipped. Spine cloth is intact but shows usual wear. Signed by Illustrator(s).…

Hardcover. Condizione: vg. Rare Suite of California Wood EngravingsA panorama of California history from prehistoric times through the beginning of air travel, through a series of fine wood engravings by a noted California artist. The images. Quarto. Original linen cloth-backed boards. Printed paper label on front cover (label slightly edge-chipped). A few tiny nicks to board edges. Corners showing a bit of wear. Title woodcut vignette. Some minor light (most marginal) foxing. 6 preliminary leaves and 52 original woodcut engravings printed on tissue paper. A beautiful complete example of this rare California book of original signed wood engravings. Inscribed on front free endpaper: "Christmas '31. From 'Four New Jewels' from the Valley - El Cajon. El Padre." Copy no. 78 from a limited edition of 100. Each woodcut captioned and signed in pencil by the artist. Rare Suite of California Wood EngravingsA panorama of California history from prehistoric times through the beginning of air travel, through a series of fine wood engravings by a noted California artist. The images evoke the romance of California history through a visual chronicle of major events from the time of the La Brea Tar Pits to the advent of air travel. Each engraving is titled and signed (in pencil) by Goodchild.This is Goodchild's first book. Published under the obscure private press imprint of Bark N' Rags. Goodchild was born in San Luis Obispo in 1901. By 1932 he was living in Southern California, having settled in Glendale. He died in 1983.Victoria Dailey has written on California books illustrated with original woodblocks, though she seems to have overlooked Goodchild's California Milestones:The woodcut became the preferred medium of most California graphic artists, as it united several theoretical and stylistic currents of the time. - Dailey, The Illustrated Book in California 1905-1940, The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, Winter, 1988, Vol. 7 (Winter, 1988), pages 72-87.Paul Landacre was the giant in the field of Califorina wood engravers, though the first few decades of the 20th-century saw a fair number of other talents, which Dailey covers in her excellent article. Goodchild's work is somewhat evocative of that of Prescott Chaplin, who also illustrated several books with black-and-white woodcuts, including: 25 Woodcuts and Mexicans (both from 1930).A selection of the wood engravings:La Brea PitsCame the Ice Age [wild horses]Dark Age PictographThe Aborigines [coast scene of California Native Americans]Arrival of Hwui Shan 500 A.D.Landing of Cabrillo in California 1542Capture of a GalleonJunipero Serra.San Diego de AlcalaMission San Carlos Boromeo 1770Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa 1772Anza Crossing the Desert 1774Mission Santa Barbara 1786Mission San Francisco de Solano 1823Hides and TallowA Barbecue. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Fist edition. 10 3/4'' x 10 3/4''. Unpaginated. This is number 72 of a limited edition of 100 copies. Some light foxing and toning to pages, not affecting the plates. Prints are printed from the original wood blocks. Each woodcut is titled and signed in pencil. Very scarce, the type of book which is taken apart to sell individual prints. General wear to covers, a delicate book. Cecil Wray Goodchild. (illustratore).…