1947 Pictures into Verse

Description

Author's Presentation Copy, First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Signed, Very Scarce

Author's presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper to one Andrew Button. 

Privately printed.

Undated, dated from institutional copies and the author's dated inscription.

A unique copy with the author's own comments and additions tipped-in. This includes clippings of hand-typed notes tipped-in to p. 6 and p. 62, as well as an additional print and accompanying verse to the rear, which the author has hand-written page numbers to (63-65). With a couple more notes inscribed to the work. 

Illustrated (excluding the author's addition) with sixteen black and white plates, containing prints of art works by Corregio, Rembrandt, Renoir and others. One plate folding. Collated, complete. 

With poetical translations from important industrialist, philanthropist and art collector, Samuel Courtauld. 

Poetry had always been an important part of Courtauld’s life, but it was only after he retired that he was able to fulfil his long-standing desire to publish his own poetry. This book of poems showcases Courtauld’s responses to old master and Impressionist paintings that he loved. Two paintings in his own collection were included, Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s La Loge (The Theatre Box) and Spring, Chatou. Courtauld was proud of the volume and sent it to friends and correspondents in the art world. He died a few weeks after its publication.