Reduced Eve's Legend By Lord Holland, With Engravings On Wood By Hester Sainsbury
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Eve's Legend by Lord Holland, with Engravings on Wood by Hester Sainsbury 'Eve's Legend' was written in 1824 by Lord Holland, and illustrated with nineteen hand-coloured woodcuts by Hester Sainsbury. Mostly narratives within decorative borders, bound with original printed paper cover in dark red ink and slipcase with woodcut label. The sole UK printing published by Etchells & MacDonald in 1928. Title page and 18 wonderfully inventive hand-coloured wood engravings by Hester Sainsbury to accompany the text which is described as "specimens of laborious idleness" based on five Spanish Novels which omit throughout one vowel in the alphabet, and a sixth containing one vowel only. A delightful and eccentric publication, with an arch primitiveness to the hand coloured woodcuts that illustrate this proto-houlipo text. Sainsbury, poet and artist from the west country Tuke family, married the book's designer and printer Frederick Etchells four years later. Some general wear to slipcase and discolouration/darkening to spine. Title label to spine of slipcase missing. Otherwise in very good condition - one of only 300 printed, this copy is an unnumbered review copy.
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