A BOOK OF BEAUTY: AN ANTHOLOGY OF WORDS AND PICTURES.
by HADFIELD, John (Compiler)
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- Hardcover
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London,, 1952. First Edition. Hardback.. Very good.. 8vo. pp. 255, [i]. Coloured frontispiece. 62 full-page illustrations in the text, half are coloured. Musical examples in the text. Original publisher's white cloth-backed patterned boards lettered gilt on spine. Patterned endpapers from a design by William Morris. Presentation copy: 'For John Lewis, who justified the title, with the Editor's thanks & regards John Hadfield 29.xi.52.' Bookplate of John Lewis on front pastedown endpaper. Loosely inserted Order of Service for the funeral of Joy Hadfield (1928 - 2002), John Hadfield's second wife. Hadfield says in his introduction that in Part I he has 'sought to illustrate the course of human life, from birth to death, by passages of poetry and prose'. In Part II he has 'tried to give some indications of the beauty which can be found outside ourselves'. John Lewis (1912 1996), typographer, book designer, author and illustrator, designed the book with John Hadfield (1907 1999), editor for twenty-five years of the Saturday Book and for two decades a director of the publisher, George Rainbird. A very good copy.
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- Title
- A BOOK OF BEAUTY: AN ANTHOLOGY OF WORDS AND PICTURES.
- Author
- HADFIELD, John (Compiler)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good.
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- Edition
- First Edition. Hardback.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London,
- Date Published
- 1952
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