The new keepsake / contributions by Maurice Baring, Max Beerbohm [and 22 others] ; decorated by Rex Whistler.

Maurice Baring

RA Collection: Book

Record number

10/4523

Author

Edition

1st edition

Imprint

London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1 Montague Street, 1931

Physical Description

5 preliminary leaves, 147 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

General Note

The printer is named on the verso of the title page: `Printed in Great Britain for R. Cobden-Sanderson Ltd., by the Shenval Press.’

Contents

Early influences / Harold Nicolson -- The extra turn / Edmund Blunden -- Seashore macabre / Hugh Walpole -- Lullaby / W.B. Yeats -- Park Lane / R.H. Wilenski -- The thaw / H.M. Tomlinson -- Pomodoro; a sketch / V. Sackville-West -- Tender farewell to the world / Hilaire Belloc -- Premature spring / J.C. Squire -- The woods : late January / J.C. Squire -- The National Portrait Gallery / Lord David Cecil -- The destination / Stella Benson -- The Utopian times / Siegfried Sassoon -- Suppose / Max Beerbohm -- The art of travel / Cyril Connolly -- Piano lesson / Aldous Huxley -- Extemporary effusion / Dorothy Wellesley -- Bocchus, the King of Libya / Ivor Brown -- The mother / Naomi Royde-Smith -- A pre-war tragedy / Clive Bell -- Oxford and Cambridge / Maurice Baring -- The Swiss governess / Lord Berners -- Hubris / H.J. Massingham -- A partiotic protest / Rose Macaulay -- A modern heroine / Raymond Mortimer.

Binding Note

Decorated white boards with black lettering to spine and upper cover.

Subject

Illustrated books

Contributors

Rex Whistler, illustrator
R. Cobden-Sanderson Ltd., publisher
The Shenval Press, printer