Tolstoy. War and Peace. Limited Editions Club, 1938. 6 volúmenes

War and Peace. Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude with a new introduction by the latter. Lithograph and line illustration by Barnett Freedman. Designed by John Easton; printed by Robert Maclehose and Company at the University Press, Glasgow, for The Limited Editions Club, 1938, 6 vol., 230 x 160.1742 p. Set in monotype Perpetua; Dickinson Mills paper; full red linen, lithographed from a design by the illustrator. Ejemplar 675/1500, firmado por el ilustrador y con su huella digital. En dos cajas.

Some illustrated books are destined to immortality. In this group there is Botticelli’s Dante, there is Delacroix’s Faust, there is Blake’s Book of Job, there is Flaxman’s Homer. To that illustrious company, I nominate Barnett Freedman’s War and Peace. George Macey