NASH, Paul.

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Genesis: Twelve Woodcuts, with the First Chapter of Genesis in the Authorised Version. First edition, one of 375 printed, with the ownership inscription of Alice Meynell, whose uncle Sir Francis Meynell founded the Nonesuch Press. A black ink manuscript annotation to the limitation statement describes this copy as "out of series for exhibition; from the files of the publishers".Genesis was published in the second year of Nonesuch Press commercial operations. It was a daring publication, as Nash's "boldly innovative" engravings made clear his "leaning towards cubism and surrealism", and were accompanied by text in Rudolf Koch's avant-garde Neuland type, in its first extended appearance in England. Its unconventional nature made Genesis "difficult... for a wide public to accept" at the time, but it has "secured it an increasingly high reputation with the passage of time" (Dreyfus, p. 148).

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