High Street illustrated by Eric Ravilious
Highlights from Forum Auctions' Books and Works on Paper online sale on September 11 featuring the work of Eric Ravilious from the collection of Barry & Saria Viney include:
High Street by J. M. Richards
The first edition (Curwen Press for Country Life Ltd., 1938) in dust jacket with wood-engraved title vignette and 24 colour lithograph plates by Ravilious. Published in an edition of 2,000 copies, the original lithograph stones for High Street were destroyed by a bomb during the Blitz as was the Country Life warehouse, and it was never reprinted.
Twelfth Night, or, What You Will by William Shakespeare
Number 141 of 275 copies (Waltham Saint Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press, 1932), wood-engraved title-vignette, borders, illustrations and decorations by Ravilious with prospectus loosely inserted, original half russet morocco over pictorial cloth by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
49th Dinner Double Crown Club Café Royal Menu Card
Wood engraving by Ravilious, signed in pencil, 1935
Monotype Corporation Ltd. Calendar for 1954
Six sheets, printed on both sides in black and colours, wood-engravings by Eric Ravilious, loose as issued.
A selection of Ravilious's commercial work
Including the Rare Books Catalogue 149 for Dulau and Company Ltd. with a frontispiece by Ravilious
