Edited by E.R.P. Dust jacket designed by Rex Whistler.
Faber & Gwyer. London. 1929. First edition. Whistler's signature to head of title-page, dated 1929. Hardback, octavo; green cloth-bound boards, dust jacket. 258 pages. English. 205 x 145mm. 0.4kg. . Good, in good dust jacket; wear to dust jacket, slight losses to spine ends and forecorners, browning to spine, toning to pink jacket paper, large tear along spine fold, not price-clipped; mottling to boards, slight lean to spine, spotting to endpapers and some to pages, dustiness to top edge; attractive ex libris bookplate to front pastedown.
The transcribed journal of an unnamed lady from the eighteenth century, dated from 1772 to 1775. The author is an unmarried mother, she is independent, intelligent, and clear-sighted. The book's jacket has an early design by Rex Whistler, depicting a mother with a cherubic son within a pastoral setting. This copy is Whistler's own copy, with his ink signature and date to the title-page. From the library of John Haddon Frowd Holman Sutcliffe, painter and architectural historian, with his bookplate. Scarce with the dust jacket.
[Further reading: Whistler, Laurence & Ronald Fuller, 'The Work of Rex Whistler', 1960, no. 423]
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