Alison Smith
Lund Humphries
Hardback
128
2000
In 1935 John Petts and Brenda Chamberlain abandoned their studentships at the Royal Academy Schools London for a rundown farmhouse in the rugged terrain of Snowdonia. They started the Caseg Press in 1937 in the hope that it might finance their freedom to work. At first dedicated to saleable ephemera such as Christmas cards and bookplates the press later became involved in the broader Welsh cultural scene providing illustrations for the Welsh Review a monthly literary periodical. In 1941 with the writer Alun Lewis the Caseg press produced a series of broadsheets designed to express continuity and identification with the life of rural Wales in the face of social change precipitated by the second world war.
Lund Humphries
Hardback
128
2000
In 1935 John Petts and Brenda Chamberlain abandoned their studentships at the Royal Academy Schools London for a rundown farmhouse in the rugged terrain of Snowdonia. They started the Caseg Press in 1937 in the hope that it might finance their freedom to work. At first dedicated to saleable ephemera such as Christmas cards and bookplates the press later became involved in the broader Welsh cultural scene providing illustrations for the Welsh Review a monthly literary periodical. In 1941 with the writer Alun Lewis the Caseg press produced a series of broadsheets designed to express continuity and identification with the life of rural Wales in the face of social change precipitated by the second world war.