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Description: 37 pages. Folio, 33 x 26 cm. Ten copper plate engravings by David. Jones. Limited edition, copy 366 of 460. Signed presentation copy to R. Critchell Rimington [noted yachtsmen and naval writer] with kind regards from Douglas Cleverdon. Jones, a friend and contemporary of Eric Gill converted to Roman Catholicism, the two spending three years (1924-1927) at Gill's home in southern Wales after both worked together at the Guild of St. Joseph and St. Dominic in Ditchling, Sussex. THE ARTIST AND THE BOOK 136. "Jones usually favored wood, rather than copper engravings.He also designed the device of the Golden Cockerel Press." Backstrip darkened, corners rubbed, interior with wide text margins, clean and fresh. Orig. quarter cream spine and blue/gray boards. Very good
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
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Description: First Jones edition, first impression, out-of-series presentation copy, inscribed by the illustrator to his friend Clarissa Eden, the wife of Britain's wartime foreign secretary (and later prime minister) Anthony Eden: "for Clarissa from David, Aug. 1956". In her memoirs, Clarissa Eden remembered meeting David Jones for the first time in London in the spring of 1939: "On my return to London I began seeing old friends. and one new, unique friend: the painter and writer David Jones. I expect I met him through Trim. He was a most unusual artist. Almost entirely a watercolourist: evanescent, dreamlike portraits or gardens or scenery. He had been seared by the First World War and wrote a masterpiece about it, In Parenthesis. He was very sensitive, reticent and sweet-natured. His book illustrations for The Ancient Mariner are exquisite. I had my copy on display at No. 10" (Eden, pp. 25-6). Clarissa Eden, Clarissa Eden: A Memoir. From Churchill to Eden, 2007. Quarto. Original white cloth-backed grey-blue boards, titles to spine gilt, fore and bottom edges uncut. 10 copper engravings. Spine faintly toned, a touch of wear to corners, offsetting to endpapers, contents clean and fresh with the engravings in sharp impression. A very good copy indeed.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
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Description: 37 pages. Folio, 33 x 26 cm. Limited edition, copy 55 of 60 signed by Jones, containing a set of the engravings in final state. Ten copper plate engravings by David. Jones. Limited edition, copy 95 of 400. Jones, a friend and contemporary of Eric Gill converted to Roman Catholicism, the two spending three years (1924-1927) at Gill's home in southern Wales after both worked together at the Guild of St. Joseph and St. Dominic in Ditchling, Sussex. THE ARTIST AND THE BOOK 136. "Jones usually favored wood, rather than copper engravings.He also designed the device of the Golden Cockerel Press." Wide text margins, interior contents very fresh and clean, covers dusty. Orig. beige cloth backstrip lettered in gilt. Teg. Very good
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.