Print collector's quarterly (12.1925)

Benjamin Fawcett, by the Rev. M. C. F. Morris
(Oxford University Press, 5/-), breaks new ground in
describing the life and work of a skilled and conscientious
Victorian wood-engraver and printer in colours (1808-
1893), who deserves some of the fame and recognition
which have been bestowed so plenteously on his more
popular contemporary, Baxter. His work is to be found
for the most part in books on Natural History, and a
list is given of the very numerous works which were
produced and illustrated in Fawcett’s establishment
at Driffield, in Yorkshire, where he was intimately
associated with F. 0. Morris, author of British Birds and
County Seats, and father of Fawcett’s biographer. He
is an engraver whom no future historian of printing in
colours can afford to neglect. The book also contains
a brief biography of A. F. Lydon (1836-1917), who
drew many illustrations for the Fawcett books. Four
separate colour prints by Lydon, apart from books,
are specially mentioned: The Requiem, Frozen Out,
Stoke Poges Church, and Burnham Beeches.
Mr. H. J. L. Wright’s Errata and Addenda to his new
edition of M. Delteil’s catalogue of Meryon, mentioned
in our April number, have now appeared, and possessors
of the book should obtain them from Mr. Truesdell or
Messrs. Colnaghi.
Space is lacking for more than a mention of the
appearance of the long-expected catalogue of the
etchings of James McBey by Mr. Martin Hardie
(Colnaghi ; 6 guineas). It is splendidly illustrated, and
we are not surprised to learn that all copies were sub-
scribed before publication.

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