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- ↑ Coppel, Stephen (1995). Linocuts of the Maschine Age. Aldershot: Scolar Press. pp. 11&22. ISBN 0859679454.
- 1 2 "British Museum Collection: Claude Flight".
- ↑ "Claude Flight 1881–1955". Archived from the original on 5 July 2008. Retrieved 8 March 2009.
- ↑ British printmakers: 1855-1955 a century of printmaking from the Etching Revival to St Ives. Devizes Aldershot: Garton & Co in association with Scolar press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-906030-24-0.
- ↑ Matthew, Henry Colin Gray; Harrison, Brian (2004). Oxford dictionary of national biography: in association with the British Academy from the earliest times to the year 2000. British academy. Oxford New-York: Oxford university press. ISBN 978-0-19-861411-1.
