A Book of Towers and Other Buildings of Southern Europe. A Series of Dry-Points ... With an Introduction and Brief Descriptions by Sacheverell Sitwell.
WYNDHAM, (Richard).; SITWELL (Sacheverell).
Illustrated throughout with full-page copper-plate dry-points and vignettes. One of 350 numbered copies. First edition. Folio, a good copy in half parchment, spine lettered in gilt, illustrated buff boards, fore and bottom edges uncut; illustrated pink slipcase soiled and slightly rubbed. London, Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald. 1928
"Richard Wyndham (1896-1948), a pupil of Percy Wyndham Lewis, accompanied Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell on some of their winter visits to Southern Europe in the early 1920s and later travelled to Rumania with Sacheverell and Georgia". (Fifoot A15). Sitwell opens his introduction: "It is a long time since a travel-record of this nature has appeared in England, for the general lines of the old 'Grand Tour' are followed here in their more Southern implications, and the days of David Roberts and Spanish Lewis are recalled by the scope of this collection of dry-points. But however fine the effects that can be obtained by aquatint or chromolithography, it is evident that the medium here practised has a far more immediate and personal value for the artist as well as for his audience ... Here we find rapidity combined with accuracy". Fifoot SA15.
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