Beschreibung:

Craxton (John, illustrator). Visionary Poems and Passages or the Poet's Eye, chosen by Geoffrey Grigson, New Excursions into English Poetry series, London: Frederick Muller, 1944, 16 colour lithographs by John Craxton, original pictorial cloth, dust jacket, a few small chips and tears, some toning, 8vo, together with 5 others in the same series: English Scottish and Welsh Landscape 1700-c. 1860, chosen by John Betjeman and Geoffrey Taylor, illustrated by John Piper 1944, Poems of Death, verses chosen by Phoebe Pool, illustrated by Michael Ayrton 1945, Traveller's Verse, chosen by M. G. Lloyd Thomas, illustrated by Edward Bawden 1946, Sea Poems, chosen by Myfanwy Piper, illustrated by Mona Moore, 2nd impression, 1946, and Poems of Sleep and Dream, chosen by Carol Stewart, illustrated by Robert Colquhoun 1947 (Quantity: 6) The full set of New Excursions into English Poetry was in seven volumes, here lacking Soldiers' Verse, chosen by Patric Dickinson, 1945.