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Description
144 unnumbered leaves of plates : all illustrations. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Printed by Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass. "Gods' Man is a wordless novel by American artist Lynd Ward (1905-1985) published in 1929. In 139 captionless woodblock prints, it tells the Faustian story of an artist who signs away his soul for a magic paintbrush. Gods' Man was the first American wordless novel, and is considered a precursor of the graphic novel, whose development it influenced."--Wikipedia. Cover also designed by Ward. Gift of Robert Garzillo."
Publication Date
1929
Imprint / Year
New York : Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, c1929.
Publisher
Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith
City
New York
Keywords
Bound to Please Exhibit 2022; stories without words; wood engravings (prints); novels; graphic novels; printmaking; illustration
Disciplines
Printmaking
RISD Fleet Library Catalog Record
Recommended Citation
Ward, Lynd; Collections, Special; and Library, Fleet, "God's Man" (1929). Printmaking. 7.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_books_printmaking/7