WAR POET MEETS WAR PAINTER
SASSOON, Siegfried.
Nativity.
London, Faber & Gwyer, 1927.
8vo, [4]; full-page linocut illustration in three colours by Paul Nash; a very good copy, pamphlet-stitched in publisher’s original printed purple wrappers by Nash; very slightly sunned and corners lightly worn.
First edition of this striking collaboration between Siegfried Sassoon and Paul Nash.
Nativity is one of four poems – along with To My Mother, In Sicily, and To the Red Rose – contributed by Sassoon to the ‘Ariel Poems’. The series, published by Faber & Gwyer (later Faber & Faber) under the direction of its poetry editor T.S. Eliot, published thirty-eight illustrated four-page poems between 1927 and 1931.
Keynes A27a.