{"id":151,"date":"2007-08-04T19:45:16","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T23:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=151"},"modified":"2007-08-04T19:45:16","modified_gmt":"2007-08-04T23:45:16","slug":"natures-engraver-a-life-of-thomas-bewick-by-jenny-uglowfarrar-straus-and-giroux-2007-originally-faber-and-faber-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/natures-engraver-a-life-of-thomas-bewick-by-jenny-uglowfarrar-straus-and-giroux-2007-originally-faber-and-faber-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature&#8217;s Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick by Jenny UglowFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 (originally Faber and Faber, 2006)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smart and well-researched and thoroughly enjoyable, if sometimes scattered: why is it that we get a detailed description of how letterpress printing works in the prologue, but don&#8217;t learn the names of the tools engravers use until page 238?  Still, I was happily engrossed in the story of Bewick and his world: the streets and workshops of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the surrounding countryside where he grew up. Uglow quotes Bewick&#8217;s letters and other writings often and well, really giving a sense of his voice. I loved reading about and seeing Bewick&#8217;s art: the tailpieces for stories and fables, but most of all the woodcuts from the <i>Quadrupeds<\/i> and the books of British birds. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharecom.ca\/bewick\/landbirds\/9040073.html\">willow wren<\/a> on p 373 is a delight, all fine line and sharp eye and inquiring pose; I also loved Uglow&#8217;s description of Bewick&#8217;s conception of his book on the next page: &#8220;a bird-filled sky within binding and boards.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smart and well-researched and thoroughly enjoyable, if sometimes scattered: why is it that we get a detailed description of how letterpress printing works in the prologue, but don&#8217;t learn the names of the tools engravers use until page 238? Still, I was happily engrossed in the story of Bewick and his world: the streets and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}