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A guide to the Duchy of Epicurania with some account of the famous expedition in pursuit of rare meats

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection F043

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Type of record: Book

Title: A guide to the Duchy of Epicurania with some account of the famous expedition in pursuit of rare meats

Other titles: In pursuit of rare meats : being the story of the Rex Whistler murals in the Tate Gallery restaurant; Being the story of the Rex Whistler murals in the Tate Gallery restaurant; In pursuit of rare meats

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection F043

Creator(s): Olivier, Edith (1879-1948)

Additional creator(s): Whistler, Rex (1905-1944) (Other); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)

Related people: Whistler, Rex, 1905-1944

Publisher: Tate Gallery

Publication city: London

Date(s): [between 1950 and 1959?]

Language: English

Size and medium: 27 pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/731714

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991016202719705181

Description

A guide to the murals written in the form of a children's story. The original typescript of the guide, by Rex Whistler and Edith Olivier, was completed in 1928.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection F043: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: WM/3.

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