The Saturday Book 26.

Boston, Toronto:: Little, Brown and Company,, 1966.. First edition. Fine in Near Fine DJ. Fine in a Near Fine DJ. Octavo (6 x 9 Inches). Ochre cloth with gilt lettering and rules set in red panel to front board and spine. [1-4] 256 pp. decorated endpapers. Color frontispiece, fully illustrated with b/w and color plates. This Saturday Book includes Edmund Blunden's Random Tribute to British Painters. Valentines, James Pryde, The Noble Art of Venery, The Social History of Nudism, Ladies at War and more. Founded in 1941 by Leonard Russell, The Saturday Book was a highly illustrated annual anthology of literary, historic, cultural and collector's writings published at Christmas time from 1941 to 1975. Russell served as editor for a decade, and was succeeded by John Hadfield. At the 1951 Modern Books and Writers Exhibition of 100 books selected to illustrate the renaissance of book design in Great Britain, Sir Francis Maynell and Mr. Desmond Flower chose The Saturday Book-with its fine medley of articles on social life- as 'the one book to represent the full versatility and fanciful possibilities of printing today'. In addition, The Saturday Books were often illustrated with a fine selection of ephemera; as noted by Maurice Rickards in his excellent Encyclopedia of Ephemera. Cloth