BEAUCLERK, Helen. The Love of the Foolish Angel
BEAUCLERK, Helen. The Love of the Foolish Angel. London: W. Collins. 1929. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s patterned cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the excellent dust jacket designed by Edmund Dulac, who decorates the volume. With a handsome advertising slip from the publisher for Beauclerk’s earlier work, The Green Lacquer Pavilion (1926), which was also illustrated by Dulac. A very good copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square. Some offsetting to endpapers and stains to the front pastedown, else clean. Neat previous owner name in pencil to front endpaper; from the library of Professor Martin Salisbury, whose The Illustrated Dust Jacket 1920-1970 this book appears in. The dust jacket priced 7/6 net to the spine, the spine darkened, with some small chips and nicks to most corners and tips, a handful of discreet tape repairs to verso. A presentable copy.
A story of ancient legend, of heaven and hell, saints and sinners, involving a struggle against witches, sorcerers, hellish and heavenly characters all, with the concept of love at the centre. Dulac’s stunning dust jacket and the binary between black and white, interweaving with the typography, is an incredible display of contemporary book design.
BEAUCLERK, Helen. The Love of the Foolish Angel. London: W. Collins. 1929. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s patterned cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the excellent dust jacket designed by Edmund Dulac, who decorates the volume. With a handsome advertising slip from the publisher for Beauclerk’s earlier work, The Green Lacquer Pavilion (1926), which was also illustrated by Dulac. A very good copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square. Some offsetting to endpapers and stains to the front pastedown, else clean. Neat previous owner name in pencil to front endpaper; from the library of Professor Martin Salisbury, whose The Illustrated Dust Jacket 1920-1970 this book appears in. The dust jacket priced 7/6 net to the spine, the spine darkened, with some small chips and nicks to most corners and tips, a handful of discreet tape repairs to verso. A presentable copy.
A story of ancient legend, of heaven and hell, saints and sinners, involving a struggle against witches, sorcerers, hellish and heavenly characters all, with the concept of love at the centre. Dulac’s stunning dust jacket and the binary between black and white, interweaving with the typography, is an incredible display of contemporary book design.
BEAUCLERK, Helen. The Love of the Foolish Angel. London: W. Collins. 1929. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s patterned cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the excellent dust jacket designed by Edmund Dulac, who decorates the volume. With a handsome advertising slip from the publisher for Beauclerk’s earlier work, The Green Lacquer Pavilion (1926), which was also illustrated by Dulac. A very good copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square. Some offsetting to endpapers and stains to the front pastedown, else clean. Neat previous owner name in pencil to front endpaper; from the library of Professor Martin Salisbury, whose The Illustrated Dust Jacket 1920-1970 this book appears in. The dust jacket priced 7/6 net to the spine, the spine darkened, with some small chips and nicks to most corners and tips, a handful of discreet tape repairs to verso. A presentable copy.
A story of ancient legend, of heaven and hell, saints and sinners, involving a struggle against witches, sorcerers, hellish and heavenly characters all, with the concept of love at the centre. Dulac’s stunning dust jacket and the binary between black and white, interweaving with the typography, is an incredible display of contemporary book design.