1934 First Edition. Claude Flight (1881-1955) was a devoted champion of the colour linocut, which, as he put it, "has no tradition or technique behind it, so that the student can go forward without thinking of what Bewick or Rembrandt did before" (p. 63). The exhibition he organised at the Redfern Gallery in London in 1929 was "the first exhibition devoted exclusively to the linocut in Britain; its success at the Redfern Gallery, London, led to a series of eight annual exhibitions which he arranged, initially at the Redfern and then at the Ward Gallery, London, until 1937. First UK printing published by B. T. Batsford, Ltd., London in 1934. Pictorial boards featuring a London street scene; lettered in black along the cloth backstrip; with a frontis illustration by Eileen Mayo, and numerous other black and white and full-colour illustrations throughout on glossy paper. The covers are lightly mottled and cocked. Front hinge broken.