Judith Legrove: 'A Musical Eye: The Visual World of Britten ...

Hammer

£48

Judith Legrove: 'A Musical Eye: The Visual World of Britten and Pears', Church Hanborough, Artists' Choice Editions, 2012, limited edition, number 339 of 650 copies, 163,[5]pp, numerous colour illustrations of which several full page by John Piper, John Craxton, David Hockney, Duncan Grant, Mary Potter, Sidney Nolan etc., large 4to (32 x 25cm), original quarter cloth gilt, pictorial paper covered boards, front cover reproducing a portrait of Horace Brodzky by Gaudier-Brzeska, 1913, original A4 promotional leaflet loosely inserted. Considers the importance of art and design in the lives of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears and their significant collection still exhibited at their former home, The Red House, in Aldeburgh; plus 3 others John Piper, including 'John Piper in the 1930s: Abstraction on the Beach', Merrell, 2003, 1st edition, 192pp, profusely colour illustrated throughout, original boards, dust wrapper, 'John Piper', The Tate Gallery, 1983, catalogue for the exhibition Nov. 1983-Jan. 1984, 152pp, colour and b/w ills., original pictorial wraps, relevant material loosely inserted, Richard Ingram's & John Piper: 'Piper's Places: John Piper in England & Wales', London, C & W/Hogarth Press, 1983, colour & b/w ills. throughout, orig. cloth, dust wrapper (4)