Mazes and Labyrinths.

Matthews (W.H.)

Mazes and Labyrinths.

A General Account of Their History and Developments. With Illustrations.

Description: FIRST EDITION, photographic frontispiece and 43 further plates, copious illustrations within the text, pp. xviii, 254, original quarter brown cloth and blue boards, printed paper label to backstrip, label darkened and a little creased, backstrip likewise, boards lightly toned, top edge dust-soiled and fore-edge a touch foxed, ownership inscription and Blackwell's bookseller label to front pastedown, pencil note to flyleaf, flyleaves toned, newspaper cutting circa 1981 laid in regarding the maze at Greys Court, very good

Publication Details: Longmans, Green and Co., 1922

Notes: An important work in the study of mazes.The printed dedication is to Matthews' daughter, Zeta Eastes, whose 'innocent prattlings on the summer sands of Surrey' inspired this work - photographs of the small child enjoying mazes drawn in the sand by her father appear in figs. 141 and 142. Some 70 years later, Eastes poignantly reminisced about the mazes her father would make 'for his little daughter to run around, square, always different and multicursal, with a bunch of seaweed at the centre' and wondered 'alas too late, what made him interested in mazes', noting that after the war 'within two...moreAn important work in the study of mazes.The printed dedication is to Matthews' daughter, Zeta Eastes, whose 'innocent prattlings on the summer sands of Surrey' inspired this work - photographs of the small child enjoying mazes drawn in the sand by her father appear in figs. 141 and 142. Some 70 years later, Eastes poignantly reminisced about the mazes her father would make 'for his little daughter to run around, square, always different and multicursal, with a bunch of seaweed at the centre' and wondered 'alas too late, what made him interested in mazes', noting that after the war 'within two and a half years of returning from France he had researched, written, printed and published this book.' (Caerodia 23 (1990)) HIDE

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Price: £150

Subject: Art & Architecture

Published Date: 1922

Stock Number: 75964

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