High Street
Ravilious, Eric. Richards, J[im]. M
London. Country Life. 1938
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An exceptional copy of Eric Ravilious' High Street with the scarce and fragile dust-jacket.
'High Street is a book on shops. All children love the shopping game, and this book sets a new game for curious minds, adults as well as children ... Eric Ravilious spent a year sketching these shope in London town or country villages ... Jim Richards spent another year finding out what happened behind the counter. Together, with the printer's help, they have made a work of art.' (Text from the inner flap of the dust-jacket).
The dust-jacket for the book, present here and made of clear plastic backed with paper flaps for insertion into the book, is notoriously fragile; the jacket is in very good condition with one very small chip to the front cover but is, as usual, somewhat cockled and has shrunk.
'High Street is a book on shops. All children love the shopping game, and this book sets a new game for curious minds, adults as well as children ... Eric Ravilious spent a year sketching these shope in London town or country villages ... Jim Richards spent another year finding out what happened behind the counter. Together, with the printer's help, they have made a work of art.' (Text from the inner flap of the dust-jacket).
The dust-jacket for the book, present here and made of clear plastic backed with paper flaps for insertion into the book, is notoriously fragile; the jacket is in very good condition with one very small chip to the front cover but is, as usual, somewhat cockled and has shrunk.
pp. 100. 8vo. (234 x 156 mm). Colour lithograph frontispicece, printed title with monochrome illustration by Ravilious, two leaves with 'Preface', leaf with 'Contents' recto and Richards' text illustrated with 23 colour lithographs by Eric Ravilious. Original publisher's pictorial boards with titles and illustrations by Ravilious and with original clear plastic dust-jacket with grey card flaps with printed text, blue cloth folding chemise and blue-morocco-backed slipcase with gilt titles to spine.
#45949
