A Winter Firework. With decorations by Osbert Lancaster.

First edition, limited edition of 150 numbered copies. With title-page vignette and headpiece by Osbert Lancaster. Slim 8vo., pp. 22, original white buckram backed patterned paper covered boards, lettered ib gilt on upper board. A very good copy. The book was a private commission for the author and is not listed in the Sandford Golden Cockerel Press bibliographies. Jacob Villiers Peveril David (1906-1986) was an aesthete, writer, and painter. Ten exhibitions of his paintings were held in London from 1951, and The Villiers David Foundation was established in his memory in 1986. He travelled extensively and collected widely: sculpture from India and Europe, Japanese woodcuts, Picasso Prints, and paintings by Old Masters.