Product Description
Elaborate gilt patterned boards, printed paper label.
Slight wear to spine at head and tail (as often).
Edition limited to 300 numbered copies signed by author and artist.
"A philosopher of antiquity once described a happy state where the world should be ruled not by kings, dictators, politicians, economists or even scientists, but by a band of artists, painters, sculptors, architects, poets and musicians .
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" Edwin Smith is remembered for his remarkable photographs of buildings and landscape, many books of which he published - with texts by his second wife, Olive Cook; but he thought of himself as an artist, "as an architect by training, a painter by inclination and a photographer by necessity", in Cook's words.
She herself was a typographer and watercolourist (a contributor to the Recording Britain project) as well as a writer and librettist.
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