[Rarebooks] FS: Dorothea Braby's Original Sketchbooks including work for the Golden Cockerel Press

[Charles Agvent]

One of the 60 fine new arrivals recently posted on our website as part 
of our SPRING MISCELLANY catalog and one of many unusual FDR items in 
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(GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS) BRABY, Dorothea. FOUR SKETCHBOOKS CONTAINING 
PENCIL DRAWINGS AND WATERCOLORS. n.p.: [The Golden Cockerel Press], 
[1940s - 1950s]. First Edition. Four sketchbooks (@8" x 10") filled with 
Braby's pencil drawings and occasional watercolors comprising the 
preparatory work for THE LABYRINTH OF THE WORLD, published by the Golden 
Cockerel Press, 1950, as well as various other personal and possibly 
professional projects. Some pages loose with at least one text block 
detached from the cover. Occasional soiling. Very Good and a scarce 
collection.

Dorothea Braby was born in London and studied at the Central School of 
Art and Design under John Farleigh and Noel Rooke, and later in 
Florence, Paris, and at the Heatherley School of Fine Art. She worked as 
a portrait painter and as a commercial artist but is best known for her 
book illustrations. Working mostly in black and white, her illustrations 
are produced by wood engraving, pen and ink, or occasionally by 
scraperboard. Her best work was done for private presses, particularly 
the Golden Cockerel Press. Her wood engravings were uniquely conceived 
and brilliantly executed, and her creative talents flourished during the 
revival of wood engraving that took place in the inter-war period. In 
her own lifetime she was recognized as an exceptionally gifted wood 
engraver and she regularly exhibited at the Society of Women Artists and 
the Society of Wood Engravers. In 1960, however, Dorothea Braby gave up 
professional art to devote herself to social work.             $2,000.00

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