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1921 · 022212A — Printed at the Westminster Press for Daniel O'Connor London: 1921 1921 60 p. Colored frontis; color illustrated title page; and one plate. Colored text illustrations throughout. Toned paper. 8vo. 270 mm. With the separate poem "To the Princess." Unusual cloth backed illustrated paper boards binding; decorated with a pattern of diamonds in five colors. Claud Lovat Fraser 1890-1921 was a wonderful illustrator of books broadsides posters bookplates prints advertisements periodicals and theater design. His father was a London solicitor and after leaving Charterhouse School 1907 Lovat began to read law. Wi thin four years he decided to make art his profession. Most of his early works were caricatures in the tradition of Max Beerbohm. But he grew quickly as an artist and in 1912 established a publishin g venture with the poet Ralph Hodgson & the bibliophile Holbrook Jackson called 'At the Sign of the Flying Fame'. At the outbreak of World War One he enlisted in spite of a constitution weakened by rheumatic fever. He became a Captain of the 14th Durham Light Infantry. At the battle of Ypres salient his was the first battalion to undergo a gas attack. Though debilitated by his battlefield exper iences he continued to render valuable service to the war effort. After the armistice he entered his most productive period. He died after an operation while on vacation in Dymchurch Kent. "I reviv e after 6 p.m. and by 8 I am in full swing and work like a devil. I have enormous accumulations of work to clean up if I am to exist at all as an artist. If I had a month and worked from 8 a.m til 10 p .m. I believe I should still be three years behind-hand. It is purgatory to see these years slip by when I might be doing good things better and better." -- Claud Lovat Fraser to Harold Monro August 5 1918. W34 Language: eng. Hardcover. Very Good. (Printed at the Westminster Press for) Daniel O'Connor, London: 1921 hardcover