Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967
Title:
Memoirs of an infantry officer / by Siegfried Sassoon ; with illustrations by Barnett Freedman.
Edition:
Illustrated edition
Published / Created:
London : Faber & Faber Limited, 24 Russell Square, MCMXXXI [1931]
Physical Description:
310, [2] pages, [15] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR6037.A86 M46 1931+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of William S. Reese, Yale BA 1977, in honor of Elisabeth Fairman

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
On verso of title page: This illustrated edition first published September MCMXXXI.

"This edition printed on English hand-made paper is limited to three hundred and twenty numbered copies, each copy being signed by the author and by the artist, and of this number three hundred copies only are for sale ..."--Page [1].

Keynes, G. Bibliography of Siegfried Sassoon, A33e

BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 142 of 300; signed by Sassoon and Freedman. Bound in original illustrated boards, with dust jacket and paperboard slipcase.
Exhibition History:
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13)
Subject Terms:
World War, 1914–1918 -- Fiction.
Form/Genre:
Autobiographical fiction | Color lithographs -- 1931.
Contributors:
Freedman, Barnett, 1901–1958, illustrator. | Faber and Faber, publisher.