Studio Editions

The progress of the art of book illustration through the ages discloses a wealth of visual information that reflects a broad range of human experience and activity. The objective of this new collection of drawings, engravings, woodcuts and etchings is to provide a taste of this visual...

CHAPTER ONE IN THE BEGINNING When you buy an oriental carpet, you are not just choosing an object of great beauty to enhance your honne, you are buying part of a great tradition which stretches back to before recorded time. Academics have argued long and hard over precisely where and when the...

How to Trace^ur Family - an Easy GuideYou can start finding out about your family by questioning your relatives, especially grandparents and elderly aunts and uncles. One of them may have an old photograph album and it Is a useful exercise to go through it, pencilling In the names of as many people...

INTRODUCTION Eugene Henri Paul Gauguin was born in Paris on 7 June 1848, first son of Pierre Guillaume Clovis Gauguin, a republican newspaper editor, and Aline Marie Chazal. The artist rarely spoke or wrote about his father's family, and litrie is known of them but that they hailed from...

How to Tracelbur Family - an Easy Guide You can start finding out about your family by questioning your relatives, especially grandparents and elderly aunts and uncles. One of them may have an old photograph album and it is a useful exercise to go through it, penciUlng in the names of as many...