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UK,8vo HB,minus dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE.
Owner's ink name erased with some slight loss to front pastedown in process of execution.Top edge coloured - green, fore-edges clean, contents bright, tight, fox-free and near pristine.Publisher's original green cloth bds;fairly clean, with bright,stamped gilt letters to spine/
backstrip - no oxidisation - and clean, plain white eps with no off-set foxing.
8vo,7-174pp includes half-title+title
pages, contents list, full-page b/w wood-engraving frntis, which is duplicated again in the text, with 39 head+tail-pieces:all by Joan Hassall, 87 poems, Nicodemus (A Mystery.) - a play to rear.
Joan Hassall,born Kensington, London, 1906, daughter of John Hassall(1868-1948).
Educated in London and Surrey.She studied at Roehampton Froebel Training College (1922-25), London School of Art(1925-27), Royal Academy Schools(1928-33) and at evening classes at the LCC School of Photo-Engraving in Bolt Court, Fleet Street(1931-34).She also taught book-production at Edinburgh College of Art (1940-46).Her first illustrative commission was for a wood engraved title page for 'Devil's Dyke'(Heinemann,1936), a book of poems by her brother, Christopher Hassall.Since then,she has worked as a wood engraver (and occasionally on scraperboard) in a meticulous style influenced by Thomas Bewick, often on small blocks for inclusion in pages of text.Also a painter in oils and designer of book plates and pamphlets for British Rail, British Waterways, British Transport Hotels and the National Book League.She designed the invitation for the coronation of Elizabeth II.A compilation of previously published work, from 1935 to present (then 1950) with some new work+titles included.
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