Fanfare. A Musical Causerie. Vol. 1, Nos. 1-7 (all published).
LEIGH Henry. Edited by (1921-1922.)
£875.00
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First printing. 4to., stapled into the original decorative paper wrappers. London, Goodwin & Tabb,
The wrappers of #2 split and detached into two leaves, all issues with rusty staples, some dustiness. All in all a very good set of a fragile and scarce periodical, devoted to literature, art, and music. The title was celebrated by the publication in each issue of original fanfares commissioned for it, with a seriously impressive list of composers, including Granville Bantock, Manuel de Falla, Eric Satie, Eugène Goossens, Francis Poulenc, Serge Prokofieff, Arthur Bliss, Hamilton Harty, Arnold Bax, Vaughan Williams, Darius Milhaud, Egon Wellesz and Havergal Brian.
Contributors include Richard Aldington with two poems, Cocteau with remarkable illustrated essays on Satie (a "very English fairy" attends his birth, blessing him among other attributes with "the power to take all these things SLOWLY and SURELY") and The Six, illustrated with a portrait of Georges Auric by him, Dorothy Richardson, Frank Dobson, Anne Estelle Rice with a drawing of "Ice-unloading in Dieppe", and Alan Odle with a fine drawing as well as a cover.
The wrapper designs are colourfully Modernist, including an early and vigorous design by McKnight Kauffer, William Roberts, Alan Odle, Randolph Schwabe and Ethelbert White.
Stock Code: 126269
