RADFORD, Dollie.

£1,250 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

In Summer Time. A Little Boy's Dream. With Drawings by James Guthrie. First edition, rare, not in the British Library and traced to just five institutional libraries: four in the US and one in Spain. This delicate children's dream narrative was printed by Guthrie at his Pear Tree Press, with his own woodblock illustrations throughout.James Guthrie (1874–1952), not to be confused with the Scottish painter of the same name, founded the Pear Tree Press in 1899. He studied part-time at Heatherley's School of Fine Art and at the British Museum Students' Group. Inspired by William Blake and William Morris, he became an artist, typographer, and printer. Dollie Radford, the pen name of Caroline Maitland (1858–1920), wrote for the Yellow Book, was educated at Queen's College, and became a close friend of Eleanor Marx.

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