The Saturday Book 32.

New York:: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc.,, 1972.. First American edition. Fine in Near Fine DJ. Fine in a Fine DJ. Octavo (6 x 9 Inches). Blue cloth with gilt lettering and rules set in maroon panel to front board and spine. [1-5] 240 pp. Color frontispiece, fully illustrated with color and black and white plates. This volume of The Saturday Book is a panorama of fifty years ago; the year of 1923. With the aesthetic ambience of the Art Deco movement this book includes articles; 1923 by costume historian James Laver, The motorcar in 1923 with drawings by Leslie Thompson, The Sailing Barge with wood engravings by Zelma Blakely, Joys of Cartophily (trade card collecting), John Lewis' Essays in the Picturesque, and Jacquetta Hawkes' Martinware, Jack Gibson's Scrap Metal Sculpture and a Valediction to longtime Saturday Book Photographer Edwin Smith. 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