The delphic, the journal of the apollo arts club, no. 1 & 2.
Sussex.
The Apollo Arts Club, 1928.
First edition.
8vo.
Vol 1. 10pp. Original hand printed bifold staple-bound wrappers, printed in red and black on handmade paper. All edges uncut. Some creasing to corners and marking to rear wrapper. Internally bright save a little foxing, and rusting on the staple. With an ALS requesting Henry Williamson contribute to a future issue of the magazine: A plain headed postcard from travel writer and country walk enthusiast S. P. B. Mais.
Vol 2. 10pp. Original hand printed bifold staple-bound pamphlet, printed in blue and black on handmade paper. All edges uncut. Internally bright save a little foxing, and rusting on the staple. With one manuscript note on Apollo Arts Club headed paper, from Higgens, enclosing a photograph of the hand printing press and the new (this) issue of the Delphic, and chasing up a possible future contribution to the publication. Issue includes a note on bookplates, and woodcutting, as well as a poem by Kathleen Moore. From the family library of Henry Williamson, recently dispersed.
Vol 2. 10pp. Original hand printed bifold staple-bound pamphlet, printed in blue and black on handmade paper. All edges uncut. Internally bright save a little foxing, and rusting on the staple. With one manuscript note on Apollo Arts Club headed paper, from Higgens, enclosing a photograph of the hand printing press and the new (this) issue of the Delphic, and chasing up a possible future contribution to the publication. Issue includes a note on bookplates, and woodcutting, as well as a poem by Kathleen Moore. From the family library of Henry Williamson, recently dispersed.
The Delphic, journal of the Apollo Arts Club based in Sussex, saw its first issue come to fruition on an English oak hand printing press in June 1929, 'the whole procedure closely following that of Caxton and other early printers' (Delphic no. 2). The issue includes contemporary woodcuts and poetry alongside information on organised country walks and local artistic pursuits.
Loosely inserted are a plain postcard from travel writer and country walk enthusiast S. P. B. Mais, then of Sussex, requesting a piece by Henry Williamson on Shoreham Harbour, and a further short letter from G. M. E. Higgens, honourable secretary of the Apollo Arts Club, following up on the postcard, specifying both gratitude and a word count. This apparently short-lived interwar journal has since sunk without trace, and is unrecorded in COPAC and OCLC.
Henry Williamson (1895-1977), novelist and writer on natural history and the English countryside, is predominantly remembered as the author of Tarka the Otter (1927) for which he won the Hawthornden Prize. His wartime experiences on the Western Front having altered his life inexorably, he spent the remainder of his post-war life in Devon, Norfolk and Suffolk, writing naturalistic novels very much in the romantic tradition.
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Antiquates Ref: 27930
Loosely inserted are a plain postcard from travel writer and country walk enthusiast S. P. B. Mais, then of Sussex, requesting a piece by Henry Williamson on Shoreham Harbour, and a further short letter from G. M. E. Higgens, honourable secretary of the Apollo Arts Club, following up on the postcard, specifying both gratitude and a word count. This apparently short-lived interwar journal has since sunk without trace, and is unrecorded in COPAC and OCLC.
Henry Williamson (1895-1977), novelist and writer on natural history and the English countryside, is predominantly remembered as the author of Tarka the Otter (1927) for which he won the Hawthornden Prize. His wartime experiences on the Western Front having altered his life inexorably, he spent the remainder of his post-war life in Devon, Norfolk and Suffolk, writing naturalistic novels very much in the romantic tradition.
