Friends of a Lifetime: Letters to Sydney Carlyle Cockerell

Author(s): Meynell, Viola (editor)

Binding:	Hardcover
Volume Condition:	Very Good
Dust Jacket:	No
Dust Jacket Condition:	Very Good
Edition:	1st Edition
Impression:	1st Impression
Language:	English
Publisher Name:	Jonathan Cape
Publication Year:	1940
Publication Place:	London, UK
Book ID:	015125
Catalogue(s):	Autobiography and Biography ◇ Literary History and Criticism

1st edition, 1st impression. 308pp, plus numerous black and white plate illustrations. In blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. Top edge sprayed blue, all other edges deckled. 8vo. Boards gently rubbed at edges, a little rounded on corners and spine ends. Some spotting on text block edges and prelim pages. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Pages a little creamy, else internally neat and clean. In its original dust jacket, slightly bumped at edges, and protected in a Brodart-style wrapper. An uncommon title, contain much of Cockerell's correspondence with over 60 people including the likes of Thomas Hardy, Charles Ricketts, T E Lawrence, Ruskin, Octavia Hill etc.

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