STANBROOK ABBEY PRESS. ADAMS, Margaret. SASSOON, Siegfried. ~ Something About Myself.
Calligraphy and illustration by Margaret Adams, reproduced from line blocks. One of 350 copies. Printed in black, brown, and blue on Millbourn Lexpar Cover paper by Barcham Green. 8vo., original cream wrappers with gilt cat on the front wrappers. A very good, fresh copy.
Produced for Sassoon’s 80th birthday, this is a charming story about a cat written by Sassoon when he was only 11 and printed here for the first time from his illustrated manuscript book “More Poems” (1897). It is intentionally funny and more than a little cynical for an 11 year old: “there lay my mother; as dead as a door-nail. ‘That finishes the ole gal’, I remarked gaily, for I never did like her piticularly’.....
Margaret Adams (1912-1996) studied at the Birmingham School of Art and was a pupil of Harry Adams and Daisy Alcock. She became a calligrapher and illuminated, being known for her work for the Stanbrook Abbey Press where she did the gilding and hand-lettering.