W.H. Hudson's Letters to R.B. Cunninghame Graham; With a few to Cunninghame Graham's Mother Mrs Bontine. Edited, with an Introduction, by Richard Curle

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS / W.H. Hudson

Edité par Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1941

8vo., 7 1/2 x 5 in (190 x 127 mm); 128 pp. Copy no. 58 of 250 numbered copy printed in 13 pt. Perpetua roman and Felicity italic type on Arnolds mould-made paper. Drawings of Hudson and Cunninghame Graham at the front of the book are by Sir William Rothenstein. quarter ed morocco binding with yellow cloth boards by Sangorski and Sutcilffe, London (ink stamp at foot of front inside cover), gilt title on spine, t.e.g., rest uncut. Very light fading on spine, interior clean, binding square. [Pertelote 150]. This book is important because it was the 150th published by the Golden Cockerel Press: with it they "completed its 'century-and-a-half'." [Pertelote 150] Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (1852 1936) was a Scottish politician, writer, journalist and adventurer. He was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament (MP); the first ever socialist member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom; a founder, and the first president, of the Scottish Labour Party; a founder of the National Party of Scotland in 1928; and the first president of the Scottish National Party in 1934. His friend William Henry Hudson (1841 1922) known in Argentina as Guillermo Enrique Hudson was an Anglo-Argentine author, naturalist and ornithologist. He produced a series of ornithological studies, including Argentine Ornithology (1888 1899) and British Birds (1895), and later achieved fame with his books on the English countryside, including Hampshire Days (1903), Afoot in England (1909) and A Shepherd's Life (1910), which helped foster the back-to-nature movement of the 1920s and 1930s. The GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS was founded by Harold Midgely Taylor in 1920 with the object of publishing new works of literary significance by young authors and to print and publish fine editions of books of established worth. When Mr. Taylor retired in 1924 it was purchased by Robert Gibbins, known as an illustrator and woodcutter (Tomkinson, p .93) "Golden Cockerel books are amongst the most popular and desirable private press items." (Ransom p. 106). N° de réf. du vendeur 625

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : W.H. Hudson's Letters to R.B. Cunninghame ...
Éditeur : Golden Cockerel Press, London
Date d'édition : 1941
Illustrateur : Sir William Rothstein
Etat : Near fine
Edition : First, Limited Edition.