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Synopsis

English writers, artists and the imagination from virginia woolf to john piper. with 79 illustrations, 48 in colour.

Item Description

FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. 320 pp. Bound in original maroon cloth, gilt, with publisher's device blind stamped on front board, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper. A fine copy. Illustrated throughout in black and white, sepia and colour, including frontispiece. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. Pictorial endpapers. A study of modernism in inter-war England, which examines the rich network of personal and cultural encounters of the modern English renaissance. It examines writers, painters, gardeners, architects, critics, tourists and composers, even advocates of the regional folk cooking movement like Florence White. Major names featured include Virginia Woolf, John Piper, Paul Nash, Edward Bawden, Duncan Grant, Daphne du Maurier, Stanley Spencer, and many others. By Alexandra Harris (b.1981), writer and academic who held professorial posts at the Universities of Liverpool and Birmingham. An attractively produced and illustrated volume in fine condition.