Rupert Brooke 1887 - 1915.

BROOKE (Rupert).

Rupert Brooke 1887 - 1915.

Illustrated with photographs printed on flimsy tissues. Small oblong folio, printed on rectos only in brown ink, original brown boards, printed device and lettering on front cover. No Place, “This Book is number 13 of a limited edition of twenty-one copies printed by Douglas Wilson.” No date, 1974.

£225.00

Spine slightly faded, but a fine copy. The typography and letterpress is of reasonable quality, but the vanity of printing the photographs on tissue-like paper so that they act as an overlay on the poems is a complete success. OCLC finds copies in America at Indiana and UNC Greensboro, and the copy in Geoffrey Keynes’s collection at Cambridge is inscribed to him by Douglas Wilson in 1974, as likely a date as any for its printing. Wilson was at the Royal College of Art at the time at the same time as Peter Blake, and after a career which involved being the head of design for Ladybird Books, he moved to teaching graphics, and has published at least two books with Blake, firstly his edition of Alice in Wonderland and then his book of Alphabets by Blake.

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