The Black Country / Edward Wadsworth ; with an introduction by Arnold Bennett

Edward Wadsworth ARA

RA Collection: Book

Record number

09/100

Author

Imprint

[London]: The Ovid Press, 1920

Physical Description

[9] leaves, [1], 20 leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 36 cm.

General Note

This is one of fifty copies on Japan Vellum & contains a unique woodcut now destroyed.
Initial devices and vignette by Wadsworth and 20 black and white plates.
A series of lithographic reproductions of drawings made in and around Staffordshire. Cf. Ransom.
"Press notices": leaves [6]-[8].
Introductory Note by Arnold Bennett `Reprinted by kind permission of the author from the catalogue of an exhibition held at The Leicester Gallery London January 1920.’ (page [8]).

Contents

Drawings. I. Sir Alfred Hickman Ltd. -- II. Ladle Slag I -- III. Blast furnices -- IV. Granite quarries, Oldbury -- V. Windmill End -- VI. Slag Heap, Netherton -- VII. Mineral lines -- VIII. View near Bilston -- IX. Ladle Slag Old Hill -- X. Hingley's Furnaces -- XI. Ladle Slag II -- XII.Tarmac -- XIII. Bilston Slag -- XIV. Darby Hill -- XV. Ladle Slag Round Oak II -- XVI. Tarmac II -- XVII. Tarmac III -- XVIII. Ladle Slag Springvale Furnaces -- XIX. Ladle Slag Round Oak II -- XX. Gospel Oak Furnace -- + Black Country Village. Frontispiece special to this editon. Block destroyed.

References

Tomkinson, G.S. A select bibliography of the principal modern presses, public and private, in Great Britain and Ireland. London: First Edition Club, 1928.
Ransom, W. Private Presses and their books. New York: R. R. Bowker, 1929., p. 108 & 374.

Provenance

With a printed label pasted upside down on the back pastedown: `Wiston Old Rectory'

Copy Note

Copy 18 of 50. Numbered and signed by the artist on the colophon.

Binding Note

Original black cloth with gilt lettering pane on upper cover.

Name as Subject

Subject

Illustrated books
Industries in art
Private press books - England - 1920
Lithographs - Lithography

Contributors

Arnold Bennett, author
Ovid Press, publisher