Modern British & 20th Century Art - 31 May 2022

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Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)

£200 - £300 £600

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'.

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