Edward Wadsworth: 'The Black Country. With an Introduction b...

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Edward Wadsworth: 'The Black Country. With an Introduction by Arnold Bennett', London, The Ovid Press, 1920, limited edition, one of 450 (500) copies only, 20 collotyped full page plates, woodcut vignette, initial and press devices by Edward Wadsworth as called for, folio (36 x 26cm), original black cloth gilt. Wadsworth (1889-1949) was a member of the Vorticists, a group of mostly London-based artists chiefly active in the period 1913-1917, whose inspiration was Italian Futurism. The Futurists, obsessed with machinery and dynamics, made pictures and sculptures characterised by semi-abstract geometric form. Wadsworth travelled between Liverpool and London by train during the First World War, and was inspired by the industrial landscape of the Black Country. In 1920 he exhibited a set of watercolours and drawings on this subject at the Leicester galleries, from which this publication was borne