$406
Text by G. K. Chesterton. London: Privately Printed (at the Chiswick Press) for Alvin Langdon Coburn and Edmund D. Brooks and their friends, 1914. 8vo, publisher's cloth-backed boards, uncut, largely unopened. First privately printed edition, with frontispiece and 10 tipped-in photogravures by Alvin Langdon Coburn featuring Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's, Trafalgar Square, the Tower Bridge, etc., representing a shift in attitude that triggered the final push towards photographic modernism" (Parr & Badger I, 74).
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2015-05-07