Endpaper with Animals

About this work

This paper is bright orange. On it, gold animals run, stand, and hunt in a busy pattern. Deer, wolves, and birds fill every space. Some animals face each other. Others look away. The gold lines are thin but sharp, like they were cut into the paper. The gold color looks like metal. It shines against the orange background. This kind of printing is called woodcut. Artists carved the design into wood first, then pressed ink onto the paper. Look up woodcut to see how this trick works.