TAYLOR, Elizabeth. The Wedding Group. London: Chatto & Windus. 1968. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the wonderfully visceral dust jacket designed by John Ward. A near fine copy. The cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square. The contents clean and fine without issue. The dust jacket unclipped (25s net), the spine panel toned with very mild marks to rear panel, else an exceptional copy.
The author’s penultimate novel published in her lifetime, which follows the rebellious Cressy who escapes the Roman Catholic enclave which encroached her youth, into marriage with a journalist whose own overbearing mother is trouble enough. The beautifully eccentric dust jacket is by John Ward, a veritable illustrator’s illustrator.
TAYLOR, Elizabeth. The Wedding Group. London: Chatto & Windus. 1968. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the wonderfully visceral dust jacket designed by John Ward. A near fine copy. The cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square. The contents clean and fine without issue. The dust jacket unclipped (25s net), the spine panel toned with very mild marks to rear panel, else an exceptional copy.
The author’s penultimate novel published in her lifetime, which follows the rebellious Cressy who escapes the Roman Catholic enclave which encroached her youth, into marriage with a journalist whose own overbearing mother is trouble enough. The beautifully eccentric dust jacket is by John Ward, a veritable illustrator’s illustrator.
