Edward Bawden's Take the Broom

BAWDEN (Edward) Take the Broom. Printed by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Ltd. for George Rainbird, Ruari McLean and the author, 1952. Ltd. to 350 copies. 10 x 13cm. 32pp. Eight full-page colour litho illusts. A very good copy.

   Take the Broom is one of a set of six tales drawn by Bawden for his children, Richard and Joanna, during 1944. At the request of George Rainbird and Ruari McLean it was redrawn on lithographic plates for this private publication in 1952. £225