Limited Edition of 535 numbered copies of which this is number 128. Kauffer was born in the United States but settled in England in 1914. He was a member of both Wyndham Lewis's Group X and the Cumberland Market Group. A good painter, Kauffer's real genius was in advertising art: he produced seminal posters for the London Transport Board and for the Great Western Railway, as well as book jackets and illustrations.
8vo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full terracotta morocco, titles to spine gilt, single morocco title label dark green, inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With 7 hand coloured illustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer, using the pochoir process. A fine copy.