Mason,Rupert,George Sheringham and R Boyd Morrison (Edited By) Robes of Thespis Costume Design By Modern Artists , London: Ernest Benn, 1928.

First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in blue cloth with gilt title lettering to spine.No Dust-Jacket.Illustrated with 109 both colour and black and white plates.This copy came from the private archive collection of C Day Lewis and the book has a letter laid in at the front from an ''Elizabeth'' unclare whio the Elizabeth is but the letter is to Both Day Lewis his wife Jill Balcon and Tamasin and Daniel Day Lewis it's a post Christmas thankyou letter.Cecil Day Lewis was born in Ballintubbert, County Laois, Ireland. He was the son of the Reverend Frank Cecil Day-Lewis and Kathleen Squires. After Day-Lewis's mother died in 1906, he was brought up in London by his father, with the help of an aunt, spending summer holidays with relatives in Wexford. Day-Lewis continued to regard himself as Anglo-Irish for the remainder of his life, though after the declaration of the Republic of Ireland in 1948 he chose British rather than Irish citizenship, on the grounds that 1940 had taught him where his deepest roots lay.He was educated at Sherborne School and at Wadham College Oxford, from which he graduated in 1927.In 1928 he married Mary King and worked as a schoolmaster.During the 1940s he had a long and troubled love affair with the novelist Rosamond Lehmann. His second marriage was to actress Jill Balcon.During the Second World War he worked as a publications editor in the Ministry of Information.In 1946 Day-Lewis was a lecturer at Cambridge University, publishing his lectures in The Poetic Image.In 1951 he married the actress Jill Balcon.He later taught poetry at Oxford, where he was Professor of Poetry.Day-Lewis's two marriages yielded four children including Academy Award-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis, food writer and journalist Tamasin Day-Lewis, and TV critic and writer Sean Day-Lewis.Large 4to First Edition 1st Impression (Book ref. 61120)  £75.00

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