Choosing a Mast
By Roy Campbell (signed)
1931
This large-paper edition, printed on English hand-made paper, is limited to 300 copies. This is number 182.
Drawings by Barnett Freedman.
Ignatius Royston Dunnachie Campbell, better known as Roy Campbell
(2 October 1901 – 23 April 1957), was a South African poet, literary critic, literary translator, war poet and satirist. Most of his adult life was spent in Europe.
Published by Faber & Faber Limited, London
Faber and Faber began as a firm in 1929, but originated in the Scientific Press, owned by Sir Maurice and Lady Gwyer. The Scientific Press derived much of its income from the weekly magazine The Nursing Mirror. The Gwyers' desire to expand into trade publishing led them to Geoffrey Faber, a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford; they founded Faber and Gwyer in 1925. After four years, The Nursing Mirror was sold and Geoffrey Faber and the Gwyers agreed to go their separate ways. Faber selected the company name of Faber and Faber, although there was no other Faber involved.
R1,500