Walters, Lettice D'Oyly (compiler); Clarke, Harry (illus) The Year's At the Spring. George G....
Walters, Lettice D'Oyly (compiler); Clarke, Harry (illus) The Year's At the Spring. George G. Harrap & Co., 1920. 8vo, org. green cloth in scarce jacket; 24 full page illus, 12 in colour, numerous illus to text and tailpieces. First trade edition, dated September 1920 on title page. An anthology of contemporary poets, such as Rupert Brooke and Walter de la Mare. Illustrated by Clarke with images ranging from the charming to the disturbing and perplexing, suggesting nursery and seminary in their inspirations almost equally. Hartley, Marie The Yorkshire Dales. Otley: Smith Settle, 1991. 8vo, org. cloth-backed patterned-paper covered boards,in slipcase; selection of wood engravings made by Marie Hartley, printed from the original blocks. Limited edition, 70/250, signed by Hartley on the limitation page and printed by Simon Lawrence at the Fleece Press. Hartley wrote, or co-wrote, some forty books on what she saw as a vanishing Yorkshire. This work collects woodcuts published between 1934 and 1938, from the earliest point of her career. Simon Lawrence of the Fleece Press began printing after a visit to John Randle's Whittington Press. Probably the Press' best known work is Ravilious at War, but the Press continues to produce high quality works each year.