The House of Bricks
Blackie and Son, 1917.
First edition. Small 8vo. Tan cloth titled in black to cover and spine with pictorial onlay. In original tan dustwrapper, titled in black to cover and spine with a different pictorial onlay. Four colour plates two of which reproduced for cover and dustwrapper, and twenty further black and white illustrations to text. A fine copy, a small dent to the top edge of page 19/20, in a very good dustwrapper with tanning to spine and light chips to the head and tail of the spine.
Florence Harrison was a Australian illustrator who relocated to London in the 1920s, clearly influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite and Art Nouveau movements. She worked with watercolours to create dreamy scenes, characterised by thick outlines and strong decorative elements.
Her work spanned from illustrations of her own poetry for children, to fairy tales and Romantic poets such as Rossetti, Tennyson and Morris.
Stock ID: 46334
