The Faith of an Artist

222pp. Bound in blue-flecked cloth with yellow lettering and decorations (boards are strong, clean, square and sharp-edged, with just a little bruising at spine ends). Internally neat, clean and bright. Firmly bound. In its original dust jacket (bumped along upper edge with a couple of tiny nicks, sunned around spine, a little discoloured on verso). Assembles the personal statements of more than twenty men of creative genius – poets and painters, architects and dramatists, novelists and composers, with men of acknowledged eminence in their field : Graham Greene and Picasso, Cocteau, Vaughan Williams, Eric Gill, Jacob Epstein, C S Lewis, Somerset Maugham, Arthur Miller, Robert Graves, Cecil Day Lewis and more, speaking directly of their lives, their artistic endeavours, and their personal creeds.