Pear Tree Press (27 results)
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Published by Pear Tree Press), (Auckland, New Zealand 2000
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Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerstiff paper wrappers. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Limited to 200 numbered copies, Cover illustration a wood engraving by Tara McLeod. A collection of poetry. Pear Tree Press (illustrator).
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Gebunden. Condition: New.
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Condition: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.
Published by Flansham, UK: Pear Tree Press. 1937
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Condition: Good. PROSPECTUS. Folio. Folded Sheet, Very Good, lines stuck out with ink, some creasing.
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Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 38.
More imagesPublished by The Pear Tree Press, Flansham 1925
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- First Edition
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, hand-printed at the Pear Tree Press by James Guthrie. Slim 8vo. 17pp. Grey paper-covered boards with a decorated paper title label. John Guthrie provides a title page decoration, a frontispiece and eight header pieces and drawings in the te…xt. Free endpapers lightly browned and spotted, and with a small area of damp staining to the base of the upper board. One gathering just a little tender. A very crisp copy of a handsome production, housed in the original decorated dust wrapper, a little marked, blemished, chafed and chipped with several small areas of edge loss. A series of delightful legends including 'The Legend of the Red Rose', 'An Anemone Legend', 'Legend of the Snowdrop', 'Legend of the Corn Poppies', 'How the Buttercups Came', 'Legends of the Forget-Me-Not', 'The Legend of the Saint-Foin', 'How the Robin Got its Red Breast', 'The Seamless Mantle', 'The Legend of St. Kennach', and 'The Old Black Horse' ("It was Christmas Eve in the quaint old village of Dullington, the shops were gay as gay could be, full of busy little people, and big people too, hurrying to and fro, choosing presents and big fat surprise packets, and all the other good things one has at Christmas").
More imagesPublished by The Pear Tree Press, (Bognor, England 1922
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Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB
Contact seller5-star seller8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, label on front cover. (xii), 23+(1) pages. Limited to 80 numbered copies. Bookplate removed from the front pastedown. Minor toning of covers along edges. Endpapers foxed, else a near fine copy. Mentioned in "The Living Age" 315:4095 (December 30, 1922). Table of contents, introductory co…mments by the editor. Poetry by V. Locke-Ellis, Eleanor Farjeon, James Guthrie, Reginald Hall Ward, M.M. Johnstone, Lewis Townsend, and Stuart Guthrie. Frontispiece. Hand-printed on Antiwue Laid paper. Bookplate of Clinton K. Judy, Memorial Library, California Institute of Technology. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, label on front cover. Pear Tree Press (illustrator).
Published by 4to, 28cm, pp.21-44 (additional leaf pasted in at front), (James Guthrie) Pear Tree Press, Flansham, 1935. 1935
- Softcover
- First Edition
- Periodical
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, , United KingdomCollinge & Clark
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Set in Monotype Poliphilus and printed in black (with puce for decoration) on cream wove paper. Illustrations within the text. Stiff turquois wrappers, titled in black, with the words "SPECIMEN" and "2/6" in Guthrie's hand. A near fine copy. Principal Contents: The Plan of the Page;…Diagram; Wood Engraving; A New Way for Authors; Specimen Settings; Ars Typographica; In Little.
More imagesPublished by The Pear Tree Press, Bognor Regis 1934
- Softcover
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerstiff paper wrappers. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 20; (21)-44; (45)-64; (65)-84 pages. The first issue (of 4 total) of this periodical with comments on hand-printing, wood-engraving and other aspects of the private press book (Ridler 32; Brown, Modern British and American Private Presses, pp.141). Illustrated. James J. Guthrie (1…874-1952), was born in Scotland but moved to London as a child. He founded the Pear Tree Press in 1899 when living at Pear Tree Cottage in Ingrave, Essex, England. He moved several times before settling at Flansham, near Bognor Regis, Sussex in 1907. He was an artist, typographer, and printer with a particular interest in intaglio printing. Many of his titles stressed wood engraving and book plate design. The first issue consists of Guthrie's autobiographical essay,The Hand Printer and His Work. Covers spotted with tears along bottom. Corners curled. Pear Tree Press (illustrator).
More imagesPublished by The Pear Tree Press, Bognor Regis 1935
- Softcover
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerstiff paper wrappers. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. pp.21-44. With comments on hand-printing, wood-engraving and other aspects of the private press book (Ridler 32; Brown, Modern British and American Private Presses, pp.141). Illustrated. James J. Guthrie (1874-1952), was born in Scotland but moved to London as a child. He founded…the Pear Tree Press in 1899 when living at Pear Tree Cottage in Ingrave, Essex, England. He moved several times before settling at Flansham, near Bognor Regis, Sussex in 1907. He was an artist, typographer, and printer with a particular interest in intaglio printing. Many of his titles stressed wood engraving and book plate design. This second issue discusses The Plan of the Page, Wood Engraving from a Printer's Standpoint. First Article, and A New Way for Authors. Pear Tree Press (illustrator).
Published by The Pear Tree Press, Bognor Regis 1934
- Softcover
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerstiff paper wrappers. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 20; (21)-44; (45)-64; (65)-84 pages. The first issue (of 4 total) of this periodical with comments on hand-printing, wood-engraving and other aspects of the private press book (Ridler 32; Brown, Modern British and American Private Presses, pp.141). Illustrated. James J. Guthrie (1…874-1952), was born in Scotland but moved to London as a child. He founded the Pear Tree Press in 1899 when living at Pear Tree Cottage in Ingrave, Essex, England. He moved several times before settling at Flansham, near Bognor Regis, Sussex in 1907. He was an artist, typographer, and printer with a particular interest in intaglio printing. Many of his titles stressed wood engraving and book plate design. The first issue consists of Guthrie's autobiographical essay,The Hand Printer and His Work. Large 4 page prospectus to this series loosely inserted. Pear Tree Press (illustrator).
Published by Crown 4to, 14 leaves (rectos only), inc. advertisement, Printed by hand & published at The Pear Tree Press, Flansham, Bognor, Sussex, September 1919. 1919
- Softcover
- Signed
- Periodical
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, , United KingdomCollinge & Clark
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Number 43 of 70 (100) copies signed by James Guthrie with both text and illustrations printed entirely from intaglio plates on antique laid paper. Half-title, title-page, portrait, bookplate, engraved advertisement, another full-page engraving and smaller decorations by James Guthrie…, single engraving by Robin Guthrie. Overlapping paper wrappers tied with silk ribbon with an additional large copper engraving by James Guthrie on the front and another smaller on the rear. A fine copy with two additional pieces of Pear Tree printing loosely inserted. Volume 3 of Root and Branch was entirely printed from intaglio plates. Literary contributions include 'On Illustration' by Guthrie himself and Near a Quiet Stream, a poem by W.H. Davies. Signed by Author(s).
More imagesPublished by South Harting, Sussex: The Pear Tree Press, 1902. 1902
- Hardcover
- Signed
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A.
Contact seller1-star sellerThis is the fourth book of the Pear Tree Press, though only the second printed there. (The first two were printed at the Old Bourne Press.) The illustrator is Pickford Waller (1873-1921), a descendant of Edmund Waller (1606-87). Pickford Waller worked in Pimlico and was a friend of James McNeil Whistler, and patronized many arti…sts including S.H. Sime. He practiced the decoration of manuscript and extra-illustrated books with his own initial letters (Houfe, p. 489). Small octavo. 33 pp. Numerous initials and decorations by Pickford Waller. Natural linen over gray paper boards, printed paper label on front cover. Small stain at foot of spine, neat calligraphic inscription on front free endpaper (ÒTo R.B.F. from W.B. 1924.Ó). A remarkably nice copy of a fragile book, in the original glassine dust jacket. Glassine chipped and torn. Laid in is an original sheet of stationery from the Pear Tree Press, signed Òcompliments J.G. [James Guthrie]Ó. One of 300 copies. Ransome, Private Presses, p. 376, no. 4.
More imagesPublished by The Pear Tree Press, Flansham, Sussex 1923
- Softcover
- First Edition
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Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, , United KingdomBurwood Books
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. Small 4to. 205 mms by 265 Pp. [vi]+10(last colophon), coloured frontispiece and 1 hand-tipped coloured plate, decorative title page printed in purple & black; cr. 4to; patterned brown paper wrappers printed in blue with decorative paper title label on upper wrapper, yapped e…dges very faintly creased; string bound loose as issued in within card slipcase with printed paper title label, the label very slightly worn, slipcase slightly creased at edges. 1923. Edition limited to 100 numbered copies. This number 28 signed in ink by James Guthrie. Loosely inserted 4 page leaflet prospectus for Guthrie's 'My House in the World' (also Pear Tree Press ) Not in Tomkinson or Ridler. *The Pear Tree Press was founded in 1899 by James Guthrie (1874-1952). William Joseph Ibbett (1858-1934) was a friend and colleague of H. Buxton Forman. Some of his early poetry was published under the pseudonym \i Antaeus\iWilliam Joseph Ibbett (1858-1934) '.poetical postman, with a particular predilection for private printings--had a press of his own, and used other private presses, a friend of Buxton Forman' (WordPress file) His first book was 'Poems by Antaeus' (1889) followed by 'Backward Glances' (1890) also verse. Very good indeed. Signedes.
More imagesPublished by Pear Tree Press, (Auckland, New Zealand 1996
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Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellersquare 4to. stiff paper wrappers, cord tied. (15) leaves. Limited to 30 numbered copies. A fine copy. Concieved by Graham Marks. Designed, letterpress printed and bound by Tara McLeod. Printed on a Littlejohn proofing press. Tara McLeod originally trained and worked in the commercial world of graphic design. It was after that he… established The Pear Tree Press in 1988. Work produced at The Pear Tree Press is grounded in traditional, now obsolete, letterpress techniques such as metal and wooden type set and printed by hand on original printing machinery, including an Albion printing press dating from 1832. While much of the work produced at The Pear Tree Press involves McLeod's own imagery and writing, he has also collaborated with several notable New Zealand writers including Alan Loney, Brian Gregory and Hone Tuwhare and artists such as Richard McWhannell and Mike Ferris. McLeod himself is a prolific illustrator and has included his own linocuts in many printed texts. -Peter Vangioni, Curator, Christchurch Art Gallery. stiff paper wrappers, cord tied. Pear Tree Press (illustrator).
More imagesPublished by (Pear Tree Press), Auckland, New Zealand 1999
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Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerlarge folio. spiral bound heavy cardstock boards. Unpaginated. A Specimen Alphabet of Wood Type. Limited to 15 numbered copies. Small bump to the top corner of the boards, else a fine copy. This sixteen inch wood type alphabet is from the collection of The Pear Tree Press, Auckland. It is hand printed from the wood type on an Al…bion flat-bed press. One of the largest letterpress types to have been used in New Zealand, it was manufactured in the USA. Unfortunately the history of its use and by what printers is unknown. The date of manufacture could be late 1800 to early 1900s. As the font consists of only one letter, figure and an ampersand (&), it is likely to have been printed as single letters which were then assembled into advertising hoardings / billboards. Wood types today survive as a curiosity and are preserved in the collections of a few print enthusiasts. At one time most commercial printing companies could have counted on considerable income from the use of such wooden letters. Printed in color. spiral bound heavy cardstock boards. Pear Tree Press (illustrator).
More imagesPublished by Pear Tree Press, Flansham, Bognor Regis 1934
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- First Edition
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Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, AustraliaMichael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Flansham, Bognor Regis, Pear Tree Press, 1934. Quarto, [9] leaves (all printed rectos only with an engraving, coloured à la poupée), comprising the half-title, title page, 6 pages of verse, and the colophon. Original quarter cloth and papered boards with an engraved coloured title-…label on the front cover (printed from the same plate as the half-title, here coloured differently); covers lightly bumped at the extremities and slightly marked; an excellent copy. Number 25 of 100 copies. 'Script by Helen Hinkley. Design and plate printing by James Guthrie'. Guthrie, who was known for his experiments in coloured intaglio printing, has signed the final leaf. William Strode (1598-1645) was one of the five members of parliament whose attempted arrest by Charles I was a catalyst for the outbreak of the Civil War in 1642. The four poems are 'In Commendation of Musick', 'On Westwell Downes', 'A Watch sent Home to Mrs Eliz. King Wrapt in Theis Verses', and 'A Sonnet'. Signed.
More imagesPublished by The Pear Tree Press, Harting, Petersfield. 1905 - [1912] 1905
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Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, , United KingdomPeter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB
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First edition. Quarto. 82 pages. Frontispiece, pictorial title-page, 24 plates, 5 which are tipped in and include an original photo of the actual press, plus 14 illustrations in the text, some of which are full page. All of these are by James Guthrie, as are most of the texts, in prose and verse, and as is the printing. Linen-ba…cked decorated boards with gilt lettering to spine. Printed on handmade paper. One of 80 copies. The original intention was to issue the contents in four parts, starting in 1905, only two of which appeared. The present book, which is the equivalent of nearly six parts and contains much new material, was published in 1912. A typical Guthrie production, replete with his musings on art and literature, much in the spirit of the Williams, Blake and Morris. Includes an essay on Walt Whitman.Signed and dated by the author/artist on the half-title page in December 1912. On the front free endpaper he has drawn a caricature head of the portrait photographer Edward Cahen as a cat wearing a fez and incorporating his name. Tipped onto the front pastedown are two Autograph Letters Signed by Guthrie and dated 13.12.12 and Dec.17.12: about 120 and 150 words respectively. The first letter presents the book and mentions that no more copies are available. The second one indicates that Cahen has made a photograph of Guthrie who suggests other candidates for the ''gallery'', these being Gordon Bottomley, W.H. Davies, Edward Thomas, Walter de la Mare, Vivian Locke Ellis and Reginald Hallward. The latter contributes the poem ''On a Picture'' to this book.Free endpapers faintly tanned. Small ink spot to top edge of the front cover which also has a few small patches of rubbing. Corners of covers slightly bumped.
First designs for the theatre 1923 [LeatherBound]
Guthrie, John,Farjeon, Eleanor author of introduction, etc,Pear Tree Press
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Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, , IndiaTrue World of Books
Contact seller5-star sellerLeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1923 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt band…s. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 56 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 56 Guthrie, John,Farjeon, Eleanor, 1881-1965, author of introduction, etc,Pear Tree Press.
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Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, , IndiaTrue World of Books
Contact seller5-star sellerLeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from edition. NO c…hanges have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 48 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.
Published by Printed at The Ballantyne Press for Private Circulation 1910
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FIRST EDITION, an incredibly faint spot to fore-margin of first couple of leaves, pp. [8], foolscap 8vo, original sewn self wrappers, small device to front, a couple of very faint spots touching spine, very good. Poetry by the proprietor of the Pear Tree Press; not printed by him, but an elegant production.
THE BOOKPLATE. Being No. 3 of the Journal of The English Bookplate Society.
(Pear Tree Press.) GUTHRIE (James, Editor, Printer, Illustrator)
Published by Pear Tree Press September 1921
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half-title and ad at rear printed in green, the woodcut border to title-page and colophon printed in pink, 19 designs in all in various colours (several lightly tipped-in), including the work of James Guthrie, some light spotting, pp. [x], 25, [5], 4to, original sewn buff wrappers with a woodcut design by Guthrie wrapping round,… a sliver of faint darkening around head, a little corner-creasing, very good. The last part of this magazine, printed by Guthrie at the Pear Tree Press. [With:] The supplement of 'Spoof Designs', 8 tipped-in examples of bookplate-humour, sewn self wrappers with title-design to front printed in green, some light spotting, very good (Fuller p.30).
More imagesPublished by London: The Pear Tree Press] At John Baillie's, 1903 1903
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Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.David Brass Rare Books, Inc.
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. The Illustrators of the Arts and Crafts Movement PEAR TREE PRESS. The Venture. An Annual of Art and Literature. Edited by Laurence Housman and W. Somerset Maugham. London: [The Pear Tree Press] At John Baillie's, 1903. First edition. Large octavo (10 x 7 5/8 inches; 254 x 193 mm.). [viii], 249, [1, blank], [1, imp…rint], 5, blank] pp. Colored frontispiece and fourteen full-page black & white woodcuts included the text. Publisher's pictorial gray boards, front cover and spine lettered in black, green pictorial endpapers, engraved bookplate of W. MacDonald MacKay on front paste-down. Inner hinges neatly repaired, otherwise a near fine copy. The illustrators of the Arts and Crafts Movement include: Charles Hazelwood Shannon, Charles S. Ricketts, T. Sturge Moore, Lucien Pisarro, E. Gordon Craig, Paul Woodroffe, Laurence Housman and others. Charles Haslewood Shannon (1863-1937). Painter and lithographer, born near Sleaford, Lincolnshire. Shannon studied at Lincoln School of Art and at Lambeth School of Art, 1882, where he met his lifelong friend Charles Ricketts with whom he ran the Vale Press, 1896-1904 and founded 'The Dial' magazine, which ran from 1889-1897. During the early 20th century, his work was also featured in 'The Venture', an obscure short-lived art periodical of the period.
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11 linocuts by Sheila M. Thompson, five printed in two colours, the remainder in either green or brown. One of 220 numbered copies. 4to., 22.5 x 29.5cm, [28]pp. Original publisher's decorative green paper boards, with design after Sheila M. Thompson in white, lettered in black. Printed by John Freeman on Arnold & Foster's handma…de paper. Flansham, Pear Tree Press. Very good, corners bumped with some chipping to paper covers, spine and top edge faded, but internally bright and clean with only minimal offsetting, three sets of dropped type on page beginning 'Quarry' underlined in red, quite possibly at the press. Inscribed 'For Joanna's Son & Daughter, fr. John, Christmas 1948' on ffep. One of the final works printed by the Pear Tree Press, Eleanor Farjeon's brief and charming poems on the Sussex landscape furnish this scarce alphabet book, such that we learn: "Mister Belloc lives in Sussex, And don't you dare to doubt it! He makes good cheer and drinks good beer, And tells us all about it." A close friend of Edward Thomas, Farjeon was a successful children's author, now remembered primarily as the author of the hymn 'Morning has Broken', and recalled being profoundly influenced by the Sussex landscape where she moved with her family during the First World War. Writing in a letter to George Earle, she described the impact that the Downs had on her: ?They are so much beyond human beings to me that I almost cannot talk of it? I am theirs and if ever I vanish from the face of the earth, it will be because they have drawn me in? They?ve healed me more and given me more strength and certainty and peace than any other living thing.? Thompson's linocut illustrations are the ideal accompaniment to Farjeon's poems, and the bold use of colour epitomises the playful style of James Guthrie's press, whose guiding principle was that 'the artist at the press is, before everything, an explorer'.
More imagesPublished by Pear Tree Press - 1912 1905
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[ONE OF 80 COPIES], printed on handmade paper in various colours (predominantly black and green), illustrations by James Guthrie throughout, some tipped in or laid down, further decorations by the same, including initial letters, tipped-in photograph of the press-room, pp. 82, 4to, original quarter natural linen and grey boards,… the backstrip lettered in gilt, press device and lettering to upper board printed in black, this board bowing a little and with some very faint spotting, edges untrimmed and lightly spotted, faint browning to endpapers, very good. Laid in is the prospectus announcing this book and Guthrie's 'Third Book of Drawings' - dated 1912, it explains that the original intention was to publish in four parts, but only two parts were issued thus, the remaining four being new to this edition. The limitation of 80 copies is stated on the announcement rather than the book itself. This was the copy of furniture-designer and noted collector Sir Ambrose Heal, though without mark of ownership.
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Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait by Robin Guthrie, and two engravings and other illustrations and decorations by James Guthrie printed in ochre. One of 250 copies (this no.81). Small folio, good and bright in the original red cloth blocked in gilt on front cover, uncut. Flansham, The Pear Tree Press. Edward Thomas's memo…ry is celebrated with a twelve page eulogy by James Guthrie, poems, illustrations, a summary of Edward Thomas's letters to W.H. Hudson and the famous full length portrait of Edward Thomas by James Guthrie's son Robin.
