The Diary of Edward Thomas

January to April 1917

A signed and numbered handmade 48pp limited edition of 50 copies set in Garamond type on A5 90lb. St Cuthbert's Mill watercolour inkjet paper, quarter bound in faux suede.

In January 1917, Edward Thomas entrained for France from an army camp in Wiltshire, he had spent the night before seeing his daughter for the last time at Arthur Ransome's house near Tisbury. These diaries recount, in his observational and reflective prose, those few months before his death on the Easter Monday. It is illustrated with rare contemporary photographs and with original photographs by Robert Tilleard.

£110

with handmade slipcase £140

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