Marrin's Bookshop

Item Description

8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. 331 + [1] pp. Bound in original cloth, gilt, with spine decorated gilt with black title labels, gilt, in pictorial dust wrapper. Light spotting of board edges, but otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by 24 pages of black and white plates. Decorated by title page vignette with publisher's device on verso. Autobiography of Francis Meynell (1891-1975), poet, printer, socialist and conscientious objector in the First World War. He ran the Pelican and later Nonesuch Presses. where he influenced contemporary book design.