Modern British & 20th Century Art - 31 May 2022
Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)
Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
Illustrated by William Nicholson, a rare advance copy, including the frontispiece of George Sherston and the unamended list of illustrations, including the frontispiece
Published by Faber and Faber, 1929, with plates, illustrations and endpapers by Nicholson, with dust jacket
23 x 16cm
Provenance:
Siegfried Sassoon;
And by family descent
According to Geoffrey Keynes, 'Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man' 'was to contain a frontispiece representing the author, but this was suppressed after the binding of two or three advance copies'.