Lot 73
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RICHARDS, J. M. (1907-1992) -- Eric RAVILIOUS (illustrator, 1903-1942). High Street. London: Curwen Press, 1938. 8° (230 x 148mm). Title vignette and 24 coloured lithographic plates by Eric Ravilious. (Small tear to front endpaper.) Original pictorial boards (lacking glassine wrapper, tail of spine lightly chipped, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Elkin Mathews (booksellers' receipt addressed to:) -- A. Linder.
RICHARDS, J. M. (1907-1992) -- Eric RAVILIOUS (illustrator, 1903-1942). High Street. London: Curwen Press, 1938. 8° (230 x 148mm). Title vignette and 24 coloured lithographic plates by Eric Ravilious. (Small tear to front endpaper.) Original pictorial boards (lacking glassine wrapper, tail of spine lightly chipped, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Elkin Mathews (booksellers' receipt addressed to:) -- A. Linder.

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RICHARDS, J. M. (1907-1992) -- Eric RAVILIOUS (illustrator, 1903-1942). High Street. London: Curwen Press, 1938. 8° (230 x 148mm). Title vignette and 24 coloured lithographic plates by Eric Ravilious. (Small tear to front endpaper.) Original pictorial boards (lacking glassine wrapper, tail of spine lightly chipped, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Elkin Mathews (booksellers' receipt addressed to:) -- A. Linder.

FIRST EDITION by the architectural writer and critic Richards who 'became, in the 1950s, the most influential architectural commentator in Britain' (ODNB).

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