NASH, Paul. BEAUMONT PRESS. DRINKWATER, John. ~ Loyalties: A Book of Poems.
No. 103 of 120 copies on handmade paper of a total edition of 200. Patterned paper on boards and 9 wood engraved decorations by Paul Nash. Designed and printed at the Beaumont Press. 8vo., original linen backed Paul Nash patterned paper covered boards, bound by Cyril Beaumont, printed paper spine and upper cover labels. Very good copy with darkening to the cloth and rubbing to the spine label, endpapers lightly browned as usual.
Printed and bound by hand by Cyril Beaumont (1891-1976), the dance historian, critic, bookseller and publisher, at his press in Westminster. A very rare Nash item.
This was the first time these Drinkwater poems had been printed. An expanded edition was published by Sidgwick & Jackson in 1919.
Booklabel of Marjorie Phillips, the American Impressionist painter and art collector.