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PEAR TREE PRESS - The Venture. An Annual of Art and Literature

Title: The Venture. An Annual of Art and Literature
Description: London: The Pear Tree Press] At John Baillie's, 1903. The Illustrators of the Arts and Crafts Movement PEAR TREE PRESS. The Venture. An Annual of Art and Literature. Edited by Laurence Housman and W. Somerset Maugham. London: [The Pear Tree Press] At John Baillie's, 1903. First edition. Large octavo (10 x 7 5/8 inches; 254 x 193 mm.). [viii], 249, [1, blank], [1, imprint], 5, blank] pp. Colored frontispiece and fourteen full-page black & white woodcuts included the text. Publisher's pictorial gray boards, front cover and spine lettered in black, green pictorial endpapers, engraved bookplate of W. MacDonald MacKay on front paste-down. Inner hinges neatly repaired, otherwise a near fine copy. The illustrators of the Arts and Crafts Movement include: Charles Hazelwood Shannon, Charles S. Ricketts, T. Sturge Moore, Lucien Pisarro, E. Gordon Craig, Paul Woodroffe, Laurence Housman and others. Charles Haslewood Shannon (1863–1937). Painter and lithographer, born near Sleaford, Lincolnshire. Shannon studied at Lincoln School of Art and at Lambeth School of Art, 1882, where he met his lifelong friend Charles Ricketts with whom he ran the Vale Press, 1896–1904 and founded 'The Dial' magazine, which ran from 1889–1897. During the early 20th century, his work was also featured in 'The Venture', an obscure short-lived art periodical of the period. .

Keywords: Fine Printing

Price: US$ 650.00 Seller: David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)
- Book number: 06018

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