With a printed dedication to her partner Judith Wogan, am actor and owner of Grafton Theatre, London. One of only 1210 copies.
Francesca Allinson (1902–1945) was a folk musician with roots in the labour and pacifist movements. A polymath and multi-stringed creative, she was also a puppeteer, conductor and historian of English folk songs. In a sorry later parallel with her publisher, Allinson drowned herself in the River Stour in East Grinstead in 1945.
Like Allinson, Enid Marx (1902-1998) was a multitalented artist engaged by vernacular forms (as well as industrial ones). Celebrated for both her book and textile designs, the latter for London Transport, she was a contemporary of Edward Bawden, Barnett Freedman, Barbara Hepworth and Eric Ravilious at RCA.