Note: Each of the separate illustrations measures 13cm x 10cm, the title vignette measures 6cm x 10cm, all are printed on thin Japon.

Blair Hughes-Stanton was a major figure in the English wood-engraving revival in the twentieth century. One of the most technically accomplished British artists he was celebrated for his exceptional skills in the art of engraving. In 1938 he won the prestigious International Prize for Engraving at the Venice Biennale. William McCance who worked with Hughes-Stanton said of him, ‘He was an expressionist…but to find an expressionist who is able to take an intractable medium like wood engraving and make it a flexible instrument for his fancy and sensuous flights is unique.’

Christopher Sandford was also a book designer. He ran the Boar’s Head Press at Manaton in Devon in the early nineteen thirties, from which he issued a number of books, mainly by contemporary authors and many of them with wood-engravings by his wife Lettice Sandford. Sandford was also a founding director of the Folio Society.