Genesis. Twelve Woodcuts by Paul Nash with the First Chapter of Genesis in the Authorised Version by Nash, Paul - 1924

London: The Folio Society, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Slipcase, jacket, book, and contents all as new. Fine. A beautiful reproduciton of an expensive book that also rarely turns up in truly fine conditon.

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1924. Pp. [56], French-folded, 12 full page illustrations; tall cr. 4to; black papered boards, lettered and decorated in gilt, small surface chip at foot of spine, fore-corners of boards faintly bruised, tiny spot to lower board; uncut; dust wrapper, soiled and worn, edges chipped and split, the front panel detached, large triangular piece torn from top edge of back panel; book label of David Levine, Sydney, above the earlier ex libris label of Joseph Halle Schaffner, the free endpapers faintly offset, a couple of leaves a trifle creased; Nonesuch Press, London, 1924. Edition limited to 375 numbered copies, printed by the Curwen Press on handmade paper. McKitterick 14. *Paul Nash (1889-1946) studied at the Slade School, and worked for a while with Roger Fry at the Omega Workshop. Joseph Halle Schaffner (1897-1972) was a director of the Chicago clothing manufacturing firm Hart, Schaffner, and Marx. He collected books on several subjects, including the history of science (a… Read More

(London): Nonesuch Press, 1924. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Quarto, unpaginated. A crisp, clean, very nice copy, about fine, lacking the dust jacket. This is number 19 of 375 limited copies. A stark and lovely woodcut-driven work, which, while not a "wordless novel," clearly anticipates the style of Lynd Ward and his contemporaries. Nash was a well-kown artist, whose unsettling, eerily whimsical landscapes of World War I helped usher modernist trends into British art. His woodcuts in this volume are no less impressive than his canvas work.