Urne Buriall and the Garden of Cyrus
Nash, Paul. Browne, Sir Thomas
London. Curwen Press. 1932
A superb copy of Paul Nash's 'Urne Buriall' in the binding he designed.
From the edition limited to 215 numbered copies on hand-made paper, this copy unnumbered.
Only the first 85 copies were bound at the time to Paul Nash's design (reflecting poor sales at the time of publication) by Nevetts Ltd.; copies that had remained in sheets were bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe at a later date..
'Nash was asked by Desmond Flower of Cassells to illustrate a book of his choice, Sir Thomas Browne's 'Urne Buriall' being selected ... Herbert Read considered the result 'one of the loveliest achievements of contemporary British art'.' (see 'From Manet to Hockney').
[From Manet to Hockney 94].
From the edition limited to 215 numbered copies on hand-made paper, this copy unnumbered.
Only the first 85 copies were bound at the time to Paul Nash's design (reflecting poor sales at the time of publication) by Nevetts Ltd.; copies that had remained in sheets were bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe at a later date..
'Nash was asked by Desmond Flower of Cassells to illustrate a book of his choice, Sir Thomas Browne's 'Urne Buriall' being selected ... Herbert Read considered the result 'one of the loveliest achievements of contemporary British art'.' (see 'From Manet to Hockney').
[From Manet to Hockney 94].
pp. xx, 146. 4to. (307 x 230 mm). Leaf with justification verso, half-title, title with printer's credit verso, leaf with contents, leaf with list of illustrations, leaf with Desmond Flower's 'Publishers' Note', 4 leaves with John Carter's introduction and Nash's text including his dedications (one for each book) to Thomas le Gros and Nicholas Bacon illustrated with 32 colour pochoir plates and vignettes including head- and tail-pieces by Paul Nash, final leaves with 'Apparatus Criticus' and 'Appendix' with details of 'Certain copies ... containing corrections in the Author's hand'. Full original vellum by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, after Paul Nash's original design, with their signature gilt to front turn-in, brown morocco panel to upper cover with inlaid vellum and gilt-tooled linear and pointille lozenge, the lozenge repeated with onlaid morocco to the rear cover, smooth spine with gilt title, a.e.g., later vellum-backed blue cloth box with morocco label with gilt title to spine.
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