— David Jones

London, The Tate Gallery, 1981. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this catalogue of the works of British painter and modernist poet David Michal Jones. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, sixteen colour plates, and numerous in-text images in black-and-white. Collated complete. A catalogue of the works of David Michael Jones, a British painter and modernist poet who worked mainly in watercolour on portraits and animal, landscape, legendary and religious subjects. Adored by his contemporaries, Kenneth Clark took him to be the best living British painter, while both T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden put his poetry among the best written in their century. This catalogue is published to accompany the exhibition of Jones' paintings, drawings, and inscriptions at The Tate Gallery. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Fine/Fine.