Laura Knight : a book of drawings / with a foreword by Charles Marriott and descriptive notes

Dame Laura Knight RA

RA Collection: Book

Record number

14/4752

Author

Imprint

London: John Lane the Bodley Head Limited ; The European Art Publishing Society Limited, 1923

Physical Description

[62] pages, [1], 20 leaves of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 32 cm.

General Note

With half title; two blank and genuine leaves at front, one following text pages.
Leaf with plate number and descriptive letterpress precedes each plate. Plates also include an unnumbered frontispiece portrait.
”Royal Quarto (12 ½ in. x 10 in). Twenty magnificent collotype reproductions of a brilliant series of drawings, in colour and monochrome with A Self-portrait of the Artist.” [from a publishers advertisement tipped-in before the half-title page.

Provenance

The front pastedown carries a 20th century Royal Academy bookplate

Copy Note

Copy no. 28 of an edition limited to 500 numbered copies signed by the artist.

Binding Note

Quarter bound in cloth with grey paper covered boards. Paper title label on spine `Laura Knight. A book of drawing'

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