#Barry moser

[enchantedbook]

Illustration for Henry Treece's poem : 'The Magic Wood 'by Barry Moser

[mrdirtybear]

'Self Portrait', a 1985 wood engraving by American artist Barry Moser (born 1940) for the portfolio Face To Face, a gathering of self-portraits by leading contemporary wood engravers. For more about Mr Moser please left click here.

[the-cricket-chirps]

Barry Moser

King of the Birds

(Pennyroyal Press)

[sesiondemadrugada]

Barry Moser.

[agarcil]

La mano que le da de comer.

[archivist-dragonfly]

Book 561

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

Lewis Carroll / illustrated by Barry Moser

University of California Press 1983

It must be also said that the California Alice books are beautifully well-done. One-quarter cloth bound with three-color printing throughout (red for accents and annotations and blue for chapter heads and other notes), and with a mirrored title page at the end, they are both exceptional. With a beautifully annotated chess problem, the California edition also includes as one of its appendices the challenged “Wasp in a Wig” chapter (also illustrated), and several introductions written by Dodgson for various editions. After Gardner’s Annotated Alice, they might be my favorites.

[sometimesthepossible]

image from "The Magic Wood: A Poem" by Henry Treece, illustrated by Barry Moser

[rbolick]

Books On Books Collection - Annie Cicale

Patterned Alphabet (2013) Patterned Alphabet  (2013)Annie CicaleSewn, casebound leporello. H104 x W104 mm. 34 panels. Edition of 41, of which this 26. Artist 4 July 2023.Photos: Books On Books Collection. Patterned Alphabet could well have been entitled Textured Alphabet. The number of different textures almost equals that of the patterns. It is the textures’ interaction with each other as well…

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William Palmer Johnston, Melville's Billy Budd at 100, Frontispiece Illustration by Barry Moser, The Grolier Club, New York, NY / University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 2024

Exhibitions: Melville’s Billy Budd at 100, The Grolier Club, September 12 – November 9, 2024; Oberlin College & Conservatory Libraries, Oberlin, OH, November 17 – December 20, 2024

[theninth09]

thinking about theo raeken...

Deimos by Dragan Bibin; The Death of Jezebel by Barry Moser; Untitled (from the black paintings) by Francisco Goya; Master Bedroom by Andrew Wyeth; Dog and Priest by Alex Colville; Wolves by Andrew Wyeth

[the-cricket-chirps]

Barry Moser

The Wicked Witch of the West

(wood engraving)

1985

[nateconnolly]

In the year 2020, I faced the COVID-19 pandemic, and I coped by reading books. In the year 79, Pliny the Younger faced the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which destroyed Pompeii, and, in his own words,

asked for a book of Livy and read it as if for pleasure

Page 29

Moser, Barry, et al. Ashen Sky : The Letters of Pliny the Younger on the Eruption of Vesuvius. Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007.

[archivist-dragonfly]

Book 560

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll / illustrated by Barry Moser

University of California Press 1982

Reproduced at three-quarters the original size, this California edition of Alice is a close reproduction of the deluxe limited edition published by Moser’s own Pennyroyal Press. Of all my editions of the Alice books, the Moser is perhaps the most sinister. Where Tenniel is satirical, Rackham is sumptuous, and Steadman is a bit unhinged, Moser’s Alice is dark, phantasmagoric even, with its realism making it all seem slightly too deranged. The Cheshire Cat is a feral beast with a fang-toothed smile, the Mad Hatter is arch and wild-eyed, the March Hare is sullen and grumpy, and the Queen is a stern, demented old woman—all shaded by the deep black of Moser’s incredible woodcuts. As for the girl harself, she barely appears. We see her at the very beginning, listening to her sister read and at the end, as she runs off after at the end of the story. The only time we really get a good look at her is a portrait appended to the book. Eyes shaded in darkness and hair wild as though in mid-spin, throughout the entire book it’s the only clear view of Alice Moser provides. And even then, cast in shadow.

[uwmspeccoll]

Marbled Monday

This lovely sandy or striated-rock-like marbling is part of the binding of the book Culs de Lampe by the Gehenna Press, a fine arts press founded by American artist and graphic designer Leonard Baskin (1922-2000) in 1942. This book was published by the press in 1968. The paper is Nideggen and Fabriano blue and white and master printer Harold McGrath (1922-2000), who also printed for Barry Moser's Pennyroyal Press, was the printer.

The book consists of a series of culs-de-lampe, a subset of tailpieces that take a particular shape reminiscent of the bottom of a lamp (hence the name). These designs are often used at the bottom of pages or ends of sections or chapters of a book. Those seen here are printed in black, blue, green, and red and range in date from 1564-1680.

The marbled paper is a large nonpareil pattern. You can still see the underlying zig-zag or gel-git pattern that is the foundation of the nonpareil pattern (and most combed patterns). The colors are earthy browns and greys and remind me of sand or a cross-section of sedimentary rock. The binding was done by Gray Parrot, who has also bound editions for the likes of Dard Hunter's Mountain House Press and Henry Morris' Bird & Bull Press.

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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

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The Magic Wood a poem by Henry Treece'

THE DIFFERENT LAYERS OF POETRY IN WORDS AND SOUNDS. (1361)

Illustration for Henry Treece's poem : 'The Magic Wood 'by Barry Moser tumblr reblog from enchantedbook Jun 28

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THE MAGIC WOOD Henry Treece

The wood is full of shining eyes, The wood is full of creeping feet, The wood is full of tiny cries; You must not go to the wood at night!

I met a man with eyes of glass And a finger as curled as the wrigglin worm And hair as red as rotting leaves And a stick that hissed like a summer snake

The wood is full of shining eyes, The wood is full of creeping feet, The wood is full of tiny cries; You must not go to the wood at night!

He sang me a song in backwards words And drew me a dragon in the air I saw his teeth through the back of his head And a rat's eyes winking from his hair.

The wood is full of shining eyes, The wood is full of creeping feet, The wood is full of tiny cries; You must not go to the wood at night!

He made me a penny out of a stone And showed me the way to catch a lark With a straw and a nut and a whispered word And a penn'orth of ginger wrapped up in a leaf

The wood is full of shining eyes, The wood is full of creeping feet, The wood is full of tiny cries; You must not go to the wood at night!

He asked me my name and where I lived I told him a name from my Book of Tales He asked me to come with him into the wood And dance with the kings from under the hills

The wood is full of shining eyes, The wood is full of creeping feet, The wood is full of tiny cries; You must not go to the wood at night!

But I saw that his eyes were turning to fire I watched the nails grow on his wriggling hand And I said my prayers all in a rush And found myself safe on my father's land.

The wood is full of shining eyes, The wood is full of creeping feet, The wood is full of tiny cries; You must not go to the wood at night!

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[saranilssonbooks]

Loved this image long before I read the book, and my sentiments haven't exactly cooled since.

Nicely done, but not anything from the novel.