Classical Landscape by Lancaster, Signed (4 results)

Condition: Fair. SIGNED! London: John Murray, 1947. Limited 1st edition. Copy #69/100. Sm 4to hardcover. 224pp. Illustrations, some color. Signed by author on limitation page. Good book. No dust jacket. (Greece, Travel) Inquire if you need further information.

Free endpapers slightly embrowned, some spotting of edges and prelims, dustwrapper slightly darkened at spine and a little frayed. Signed by the author on the half-title.

Pp. 224, 8 coloured plates, black & white title page vignette and numerous text illustrations (4 full page and one double page), full page map, printed endpapers, index; wide med. 8vo; t.e.g., others uncut; qr. cream cloth, spine lettered in gilt, patterned papered boards, upper board decorated in gilt, edges of boards lightly browned and a trifle rubbed; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper free endpaper, the free endpapers slightly offset, a couple of faint spots of foxing; John Murray, London, 1947. One of 100 numbered copes on hand-made paper, signed by the author/artist. Signed.

First edition. Royal octavo. 224 pages. Illustrations by the author in colour and black-and-white.Presentation copy from the author, inscribed by him on the half-title page: ''To John and Myfanwy with love from Osbert.'' The recipients are his friends the Pipers. Lancaster and John Piper worked together on creating the centrepiece for the Festival Gardens on the South Bank in 1951 and it was through their association that Lancaster became a stage designer.Head and tail of spine slightly dusty. Very good indeed in very good indeed, slightly nicked dustwrapper.