Faber Christmas Cards
Faber & Faber, 1945.
Nine official Faber Christmas cards, each signed by T.S.Eliot and given by him to his friends, Michael and Janet Richards. Each card designed and illustrated in lithograph by a Faber illustrator, including Barnett Freedman, Edward Bawden, Edward Ardizzone, Alan Howard and Gerald Rose. Generally in very good condition indeed with occasional dustiness to the covers and odd marks.
An extensive collection of early Faber cards signed and given by T.S.Eliot.
Faber began producing a consistent series of Christmas cards in 1945 to celebrate the end of the Second World War. The first five cards (1945+1950, no card issued in 1947) were all illustrated by Barnett Freedman and finely printed on rag paper by the Curwen Press. The 1948 card designated them as, "for the directors and members of Messrs. Faber & Faber to send to their friends".
All five of the inital Freedman cards are present in this collection as well as 1952 illustrated by Edward Bawden, 1953 by Edward Ardizzone, 1956 by Alan Howard and 1958 by Gerald Rose.
PROVENANCE: Michael Roberts (1902-1948, poet, critic and teacher) and Janet Roberts (1905-1999, nee Janet Adam Smith, writer, editor and literary journalist). Both worked with Eliot at The Criterion.
Stock ID: 46531
£7,500.00
