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LOT 4039
2nd April 2025
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LOT 4039
RAVILIOUS, Eric (illustrator). The Gallimaufry. A New Magazine of the Students of the R.C.A. which will appear for this once only… edited by D.P. Bliss, assisted by A.E. Christopherson. London: Royal College of Art, June 1925. Title-page vignette and woodcut frontispiece by Ravilious, numerous other woodcuts by Douglas Bliss, Enid Marx and others, including three by Edward Bawden with hand-colouring. (Mild toning.) Original printed wrappers designed by Ravilious (minor finger-marking to lower cover). [Bound with:] Edward BAWDEN (illustrator). The Mandrake: A Magazine of the Students of the Royal College of Art. London: Royal College of Art, May 1926-May 1927. 2 vols. [of 2], signed by the editor Cecilia A. Dunbar-Kilburn and by Edward I. Halliday, limited edition one of 200 copies only, numerous woodcut illustrations by Bawden, Bliss, Holmes and Halliday et al., some with hand-colouring including 1 double-paged. (Mild toning.) Original printed wrappers designed by Edward Bawden (toned to edges). 8vo (253 x 168mm. and 247 x 173mm.) Near contemporary green cloth, black morocco lettering piece (discolouring to covers). Note: all three magazines put together in the Common Room of the R.C.A. where they were taught design between 1924-25 by Paul Nash. Nash later recalled of this period: ‘I was fortunate in being there during an outbreak of talent and can remember at least eight men and women who have made names for themselves since then in a variety of different directions’.
Estimate: £300 – £500
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