Ravilious - Armstrong (Martin) - Desert. A Legend.

Desert: A Legend, by Martin Armstrong. Woodcuts by E. Ravilious. First edition, 8vo, pp.252, Jonathan Cape, London, 1926.

3 full-page and 31 smaller wood engravings by Eric Ravilious. Red cloth, gilt, spine gilt, lacking the pictorial printed dust-jacket with two repeat engravings. A very good bright copy.

The artist's first commission from a publisher. The printing, whilst still superior tto that of the American edition, is poor - the engravings being heavily over-inked.