Gravure & Grace: The Engravings of Roger Viellard

This is the first book in English on one of the greatest French engravers of the twentieth century, incorporating a biographical memoir of the artist by his friend, the distinguished French academic Marc Fumaroli (College de France), a detailed essay on Vieillard's engravings by the editor, P.M.S. Hacker (St. John's College, Oxford) and an essay on Vieillard's livres d'artiste by Eunice Martin (Ashmolean Library, Oxford). In addition there are extensive biographical data and a selection from the artist's own writings. The volume also includes the catalogue of the exhibition of Vieillard's engravings held at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, autumn 1993 and at the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, spring 1994, a complete list of his livres d'artiste, and a catalogue list of his engravings compiled by Vieillard himself.