Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some light tanning due to age. Plates bright and vivid. Year 1924. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> The trouble and expense to which publishers and printers have gone in order to represent Brangwyn’s art worthily needs no mention; it is obvious. In fairness to the artist however it should be pointed out that it is a technical impossibility to do justice to decorations measuring many square yards in reproductions which measure only a few square inches. In fairness to the writer it should be further pointed out that the book was planned and partly written ten years ago. The war made publication in- expedient. It has since been-in parts-re-written and was completed two years ago. Difficulties of a technical nature have still further delayed its issue. The artist has meanwhile done a great deal of work some of it of vast size and his exhibition at Queen’s Gate this year has opened the eyes of the British public to the artist’s importance and significance. These matters have had to pass unnoticed in the following pages. In such circumstances it is not without regret that I must allow out of consideration for others-the book to go to press with defects which I am now unable to remedy. (OS)