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[004773] Wragg, Arthur; Housman, Laurence (Introduction) Seven Words. ill. Wragg, Arthur. London: William Heinemann, 1939. First Edition. 4to (Oblong). Hardback. Presentation Copy from Author. Good. [6], 9-20pp, plates. Bound in half morocco and cloth, title in gilt to spine

Boards slightly warped from damp, with some light staining to covers. Some minor colour bleed from the cloth onto the edges of the endpapers, but the text and plates are generally quite bright and clean

Presentation copy from Wragg, with inscription to ffep, ‘For Martin from Raggy (Christmas, Polperro 1944)’

A non-standard binding, presumably by the publishers for the author to give away

The pictures illustrate Jesus’s cries from the cross, and “show a new departure in Wragg’s art away from the realistic and towards the surreal” (Brook, Arthur Wragg, page 89)