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[004758] Wragg, Arthur; Housman, Laurence (Introduction) Seven Words. ill. Wragg, Arthur. London: William Heinemann, 1939. First Edition. 4to (Oblong). Hardback. Good+. [6], 9-20pp, plates. Bound in full vellum, with title in gilt to spine

A couple of patches of staining to upper cover, with spots of similar discolouring to lower cover, boards slightly splayed. Internally a couple of small light dust marks to margins of a couple of plates, endpapers very lightly foxed, but generally quite bright and clean

Presumably bound by the publishers as some sort of ‘special’

With seven pictures by Wragg, each with a half title. 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)