Claude Flight (1881-1955)

A Collection of Linocut Printing Books and Greeting Cards

A private collection of Claude Flight linocut books, circa 1934, as well as letters and image proofs from the original publishers to Claude Flight, six original linocut greeting cards printed in colours, each on wove paper, and a unique linocut proof on tissue-thin paper, mounted onto a wove support, printed in colours, various sizes (unframed) (12)

Titles include (all by Claude Flight): Lino Cutting and Printing by Claude Flight (B.T. Batsford, Ltd., Publishers, London); Lino-Cuts, A Handbook of Linoleum-cut Colour Printing (London, John Lane the Bodley Head Limited); The Practice of Lino Cutting & Printing in Colours and Black & White explaining the use of the 'Claude Flight Lino Cutting and Colour Printing Outfit'; Lino-Cuts: A Hand-Book of Linoleum-Cut Colour Printing with Ten Illustrations in Colour and Eighteen in Black And White (London, John Lane The Bodley Head Limited)