WADSWORTH (Edward). BENNETT, Arnold. ~ The Black Country.
With an introduction by Arnold Bennett. 20 plates being collotyped drawings by Edward Wadsworth, with woodcut and woodcut initial and press device also by the artist. One of 450 (500) copies printed in Caslon on wove paper. Folio, original quarter natural linen with green linen sides, green lettering on spine, slightly rubbed at head and tale of spine and with bumping to corners, endpapers very mildly darkened but generally a good, clean copy.
The introduction by Arnold Bennett is reprinted from the Leicester Galleries catalogue which was printed for the January 1920 exhibition of this work. At the end are 3 pages of reproductions of press notices for the exhibition.
Wadsworth had become part of the Vorticist group before World War One and this group of drawings which are a graphic presentation of industrialism pursue the group’s aim reflect the mechanical and technological changes which affected twentieth century society.