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[Jim Ede].
A way of life: Kettle's Yard.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press. Cambridge;
Date of Publication: 1984
Stock Code: 15683
First Edition. Large Square Quarto, pp., 253. Illustrated with monochrome photographs throughout. Publisher’s black cloth with silver titles to spine. In an unclipped, black and white pictorial dust-jacket. Slight toning to dust-jacket, otherwise a near fine copy. Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge houses an art collection from the first half of the Twentieth Century including works by Henry Moore, Lucie Rie, Ben Nicholson, Winifred Nicholson, Brancusi, and Gaudier-Brzeska. Originally his home the curation of the collection by Jim Ede is captured beautifully in these photographs, whilst the works and their placement are interpreted through his writings, and further enhanced with extracts of poetry from Shakespeare, Spenser, Browning and Blake amongst others. Heavyweight, so an additional postage contribution may be requested for shipping to overseas addresses. £150.00