(Nash, Paul, illus.)

Genesis. Twelve Woodcuts by Paul Nash with the First Chapter of Genesis in the Authorised Version. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1924



Large 8vo (10 1/2 x 7 3/8 in.; 265 x 185 mm, uncut).12 woodcuts by Nash. Black cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on upper cover and spine, orange dust-jacket repeating design of upper cover; offsetting to lower free endpaper, loss to top margin of dust-jacket.

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Condition as described in catalogue entry.
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Copy 225 of 375 on handmade Zanders paper of the first book published by the Nonesuch Press.  "Unlike the traditional English interpretation of the Bible, Nash's cuts are formalized and non-figurative.  He was one of the few English artists of his generation to approach illustration with an abstract touch" (Artist & the Book).