(NONESUCH PRESS) Genesis

Sale 2327 - Lot 230

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(NONESUCH PRESS.) Genesis. Printed by the Curwen Press in Neuland type. 12 woodcut plates by Paul Nash. 4to, original gilt-stamped black paper-covered boards, a few very minor surface marks, joints tender, spine ends lightly bumped. (London), 1924

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number 158 of 375 copies. Nash's Cubist-inspired illustrations were at first considered somewhat experimental for the Nonesuch readership, particularly due to the subject matter. But subsequently his woodcuts have acquired a reputation as among the best the press commissioned. A History of the Nonesuch Press, page 148; The Artist & the Book 215.