Marrin's Bookshop

Item Description

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. Bound in original maroon cloth, gilt in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper. Extremities slightly worn, but otherwise a very good, clean copy. Illustrated by 8 colour plates, including frontispiece, 30 black and white and by numerous text figures A collection by artist and designer Enid Marx (1902-98) and her partner, historian Margaret Lambert (1906-95), lecturer in history at at St Andrews from 1956, who together shared a love of English popular or folk art. The seven sections of the text are carving, metal, painting, textile, pottery, glass and miscellaneous, and printing