SAINSBURY, Hester, illus.

£300 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Eve's Legend. First Sainsbury edition, number 192 of 300 copies, of this short novel by the Whig politician which omits all vowels except "e", playfully illustrated by Sainsbury."There is a quaint folk-art feeling about the stiff, expressionless figures, most especially the young swain Stephen who embraces Eve, the couple resembling an eighteenth-century figurative china ornament. A contemporary reviewer considered that these engravings were 'absolutely charming, and convey the atmosphere of the period with a little twentieth century irony thrown in'" (Selborne, p. 303).

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