A WINTER FIREWORK.
With decorations by Osbert Lancaster. Pp. 22(last colophon), title page vignette, pictorial headpiece; narrow cr. 8vo; qr. white buckram, lettered in gilt on upper board, black & white patterned cloth boards; uncut; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown; printed at the Golden Cockerel Press, [London], 1937. Edition limited to l50 numbered copies on Arnold's hand-made paper. Cave & Manson 127A; not in Pertelote. *Signed and annotated in ink by Christopher Sandford at the colophon: 'Privately printed - not listed in my bibliographies'. The book was a private commission for the author - perhaps intended to be given as Christmas gifts, since Cave & Manson suggest a printing date of November. Jacob Villiers Peveril David (1906-1986) was an aesthete, writer, and painter. Ten exhibitions of his paintings were held in London from 1951, and The Villiers David Foundation was established in his memory in 1986. He travelled extensively and collected widely: sculpture from India and Europe, Japanese woodcuts, Picasso Prints, and paintings by Old Masters. Item #162880
Price: $500.00