This copy has the previous owner's inscription inside.

The first known woodcut is an image of the Buddha, dating from AD 868. Hans Holbein and Albrecht Durer developed the art in Europe, and Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) established wood engraving in England as a popular illustrative medium for magazines and books. New Zealand has its own tradition of wood engraving, with its most notable practitioner E. Mervyn Taylor. Campbell Smith, who has worn Bewick's smock to pull prints from his original blocks, has built on the tradition of this fine art to create distinctive and visionary New Zealand images. Also a playwright and poet, his topics are wide-ranging and often whimsical, but always compassionate...