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Robert Byron, The Station Athos: Treasures and Men.

London: Duckworth Georgian Library, 1931. Bra. DF 901 A77 BZ86 1931. Designer: Eric Ravilious

Robert Byron, The Station Athos: Treasures and Men.

 

Cabinets

1 - Dunedin Designs

2 - Historical

3 - Historical

4 - Lettering

5 - Lettering

6 - Lettering

7 - Pictorial

8 - Pictorial

9 - Pictorial

10 - Photographs

11 - Henry Shaw

12 - Henry Shaw

13 - 1950s - 60s

14 - Artists

15 - Artists

16 - Publishers

17 - Moderns

18 - New Zealand

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This jacket was designed for a range of cheap reprints of recently published books. The lettering is set in type, and the design allows space for the details of each book within its elaborate wood-engraved pattern of shooting stars in the night sky. It was constructed by Eric Ravilious (1903-1944), the British water-colour painter, illustrator and muralist.

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