[99] pp.
Jacket artwork by E. McKnight Kauffer
SITWELL, Osbert
Duckworth
1927
9″ x 6″
VG/ VG
A collection of pastoral poems by Osbert Sitwell, scarce in the original dust jacket designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer. The eclogues touch on an idealised England, a remembered youth and society. The volume is dedicated to Osbert’s sister, Edith. Two further volumes form a trilogy of poetry focussed on place. Kauffer’s striking dust jacket features a stylised figure representing a modern Green Man. [Further reading: Artmonsky, Ruth & Brian Webb, ‘Kauffer’s Covers. The Book Jackets and Covers of Edward McKnight Kauffer, 2021, p. 76; National Portrait Gallery, ‘The Sitwells and the Arts of the 1920s and 1930s’, 1994, no. 5.7]
