Author: Payne, Wyndham and C.W. Beaumont
Title: Town & Country, a Collection of Designs and Decorations
Description: London, Beaumont, 1926. Hardcover. White buckam spine with gilt lettering; red and tan printed paper over boards; bw illustration on title page; 50 unnumbered pages of mounted, hand-colored woodcuts and linocuts. This copy is numbered 77 out of 310 copies printed. Includes a preface by Cyril W. Beaumont. "The present volume of designs and decorations is intended as a picture book for grown-ups. The contents offer considerable variety; there are decorations having fruit, flowers, fish or insects as their motif; pictures of ships, clowns, highwaymen, battles- in short, something to please every taste. The designs are printed from cuts on various materials, principally wood and linoleum. The colouring is done by hand." -from the preface. VG- (overall wear to boards especially along edges, white cloth spine is soiled, color plates are very crisp and clean. Binding tight.) .

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