Publisher/Manufacturer: Southern Railway Series title: Thrice Welcome
1935 Wood engravings in black on white paper
38 x 69 mm. Purchase: Curwen Gallery 1985 Funding support: Catherine Lewis Trust
From an edition of 500. Printed from the boxwood blocks by Ian Mortimer at IM Imprint Merivale Editions for 'Thrice Welcome' a booklet published by Southern Railway in 1935, and printed from metal stereotypes
Three separate vignettes / book illustrations on one sheet of paper. The upper vignette is of a country house with lawns, trees, a fence and a pond. The middle vignette depicts a cannon, cannonballs, a figure, ivy and a ruin with an arch. The lower vignette is a montage of various sporting activities including tennis, cricket, golf, horse racing, sailing, fencing and la crosse?
