Lion & Unicorn Press - Britain in the 30's. Photographs by Humphrey Spender.

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Britain in the 30's. Photographs by Humphrey Spender [in association with the Mass Observation Archive]. With an introduction and commentary by Tom Harrisson. Oblong folio, [72]p, The Lion & Unicorn Press, Royal College of Art, London, 1975.

One of 100 copies, designed by Dave Freeman. Illustrated with upwards of 70 photographs, many full-page. Black cloth blocked and decorated in silver upon the upper board. A fine copy with an interesting Lion & Unicorn prospectus loosely iinserted.

The text provides objective commentary to the contemporary black and white photographs of working-class Britain in the 1930s, free from nostalgia for the period.

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