5-Day Course on Book Illustration Processes at Rare Book School

[Cross-posted. Please excuse any duplication.]

RARE BOOK SCHOOL (RBS) is pleased to announce its Winter and Early
Spring Sessions 2004, a collection of five-day, non-credit courses on
topics concerning rare books, manuscripts, the history of books and
printing, and special collections to be held at the University of
Virginia.

FOR AN APPLICATION FORM and electronic copies of the complete brochure
and the RBS Expanded Course Descriptions, providing additional details
about the courses offered and other information about RBS, visit our
Web site at:

                http://www.rarebookschool.org

Subscribers to the list may find the following Rare Book School course
to be of particular interest:


12 (I-20). BOOK ILLUSTRATION PROCESSES TO 1890. (MONDAY-FRIDAY, 5-9
JANUARY). The identification of illustration processes and techniques,
including (but not only) woodcut, etching, engraving, stipple,
aquatint, mezzotint, lithography, wood engraving, steel engraving,
process line and halftone relief, collotype, photogravure, and color
printing. The course will be taught almost entirely from the extensive
Rare Book School files of examples of illustration processes. As part
of the course, students will make their own etchings, drypoints, and
relief cuts in supervised laboratory sessions.

TERRY BELANGER, founding director of Rare Book School, is University
Professor and Honorary Curator of Special Collections at the
University of Virginia.