Mark Cazalet, Signed (3 results)

First Edition. Artist's signed letter loosely attached. Very good paperback copy; wrappers slightly dulled and edge-nicked. Pages very slightly tanned. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 16 p.: col. ill., port.; 21 x 30 cm. Notes: Biog.; exhibs.; colls. Genre: Catalogue. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Artist's signed letter loosely attached. Very good paperback copy; wrappers slightly dulled and edge-nicked. Pages very slightly tanned. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 16 p.: col. ill., port.; 21 x 30 cm. Notes: Biog.; exhibs.; colls. Genre: Catalogue. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Cazalet, Mark (illustrator). Limited Edition. Thomas Hardy s wife Emma died in November 1912, in the attic room of their house where she had lived estranged from him. Their marriage had hardened into an empty shell and Hardy had long been in love with Florence Dugdale, whom he married the following year.However, on reading Emma s secret memoirs detailing his cruelty and the breakdown of their marriage, Hardy was hit by an avalanche of grief. He returned to the north Cornish coast of their courtship and spent the rest of 1912 and 1913 producing his most lyrical and abiding collection of poetry.Mark Cazalet has created images to act as visual equivalents for the extraordinary insights Hardy found in the depths of his experience, rather than attempting his topography or historical period. He arranged the sequence to suggest his gradual reconciliation to guilt and grief, resolving into a dawning sense of acceptance.It was a long and painstaking task to cut wood and lino for the twenty-two large images and Mark was simultaneously working on huge murals, stained and engraved glass commissions and painting trips to Israel and Palestine for a magnificent series bringing stories from the Bible into the modern world. Signed by Illustrator(s).