Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

Sassoon (Siegfried).   Coloured illustrations and end-papers, black-and-white chapter headings and tail-pieces, coloured lithographic cover, dust-wrapper and slipcase designs by Barnett Freedman Faber and Faber,  1931 First Illustrated Edition One of 320 numbered copies, signed by the author and the artist   Coloured lithograph over heavy, parchment boards, top edge gilt (the design is repeated on the slipcase, whereas that for the dust-wrapper is entirely different) Fine copy in fine dust-wrapper and slightly marked and worn slipcase, the publisher’s original cellophane wrapper employed to temporarily protect the dust-wrapper is still present but somewhat torn  One of the most perfect marriages of text and illustration to emerge during the first half of the twentieth century. Although ill-health disbarred Freedman from service during the war his realisation of the world of the Western Front and the life of the infantrymen who served there are precisely rendered. He produced “not only a set of line drawings, some of them varied with colour added lithographically, but he also drew himself on the stone a design for the binding of the book and for the book-jacket. As a result it is not so much a book illustrated, as completely designed by Barnett Freedman”. - Jonathan Mayne, Barnett Freedman (Art and Technics, 1848). 

Price: £1600