1979 A View of Kilvert: Passages from the Diary of the Rev. Francis Kilvert selected and illustrated in colour

Description

Limited Edition, Original Binding, Signed

Number 44 of 50 copies signed by the artist, John O'Connor. 

In the original cloth binding.

A series of extracts selected from the diaries of Francis Kilvert, an English clergyman whose dairies reflected rural life in the 1870s, and were published over fifty years after his death. 

With ten distinct illustrations in colour that bring the diary's descriptions to life, completed in watercolour.  Artist John O'Connor, today best known for his woodcuts, was educated between the wars at the Royal College of Art in London under John Nash and Edward Bawden.