Journal with lined pages.  240 sides of 110 gsm smooth ivory paper. 

150 x 210 mm

The cover is from a wood engraving by Eric Ravilious.

Eric Ravilious (1903-1942) was a contemporary at the Royal College of Art with Edward Bawden and Paul Nash. He lost his life as a war artist in World War II.  A highly accomplished wood engraver as well as a painter of distinction, he produced a number of patterns that were used in publications by the Curwen Press. Few of his designs were published as pattern papers for general marketing.

Graham Moss tells the story of this pattern paper as follows:

Stevens-Nelson, successor to the Japan Paper Company, distributed Curwen papers in the USA under the name St Alban’s Papers, and often in the 1950s asked for new designs to be produced. It appears that an old block of Ravilious’s was then proofed up and issued, in colours of the period – this blue and a strong orange/vermilion. If you look at the unit as a wood engraving it very much suits the style of Ravilious’s work.’ In Praise of pattern Paper, Incline Press 1997.