Gertrude Bone — Came to Oxford

Oxford, Basil Blackwell , 1952. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Gertrude Bone's work dedicated to the city of Oxford, with illustrations by Muirhead Bone. Exploring the history and sceneries of the city of Oxford. The first edition of this work. Written by Gertrude Bone, British author of short stories, novels, and illustrated collections.Illustrated with a colourful frontispiece and further black and white plates throughout by Muirhead Bone, Scottish etcher and watercolourist known for his depiction of industrial and architectural subjects. With unclipped dust wrapper. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only, lightly bumped to head and tail of spine. Dust wrapper with loss to spine and wraps with few minor closed tears. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting to fore edge, affecting particularly first and last few leaves as well as occasional page throughout. Otherwise, pages generally bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Muirhead Bone. Very Good Indeed/Good.