[Rarebooks] FS - Bronowski & Empson "Experiment"

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*BRONOWSKI, Jacob and William Empson (eds.). /EXPERIMENT/ Number 1, 
November, 1928.*  Printed at The University Press, Cambridge, UK. 1928. 
1st edition, wrappers. 8vo, pp. 48. Stitched card covers soiled, and 
"thumbed" at corners. Contents clean and tight. A good copy of a very 
scarce literary journal.

Jacob Bronowski was a 20-year-old mathematics student at the University 
of Cambridge, when he and William Empson founded and co-edited the 
literary periodical "Experiment". This is the first issue of the 
short-lived journal (it expired in March, 1931), and which proclaimed in 
unsigned prefatory remarks that "not a line in these pages has been 
written by any but degree-less students or young graduates", who 
included such soon-to-be famous writers as Bronowski, T. H. White (who 
graduated from Cambridge in 1928 with a first-class degree in English) 
and the famous literary critic Sir William Empson (who was 22 at this 
time). There is also a contribution by someone named Louis Le Breton of 
an article entitled "Renoir and Pure Painting": this is curious, because 
the only Louis Le Breton of which we are aware was a French painter who 
specialized in maritime scenes, and died in 1866. A literary "spoof", 
perhaps? Other [real] contributors include Basil Wright (a noted 
documentary film maker and film historian), Humphrey Jennings (another 
documentary film maker and one of the founders of the Mass Observations 
movement), [Sir] Hugh Sykes (international industrialist and investor) 
and [Sir] Misha Black (architect and designer), who drew the green and 
black design for the front cover of this, the first issue.

Price: $250.00.

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