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4to. (256 x 196 mm). 30 leaves; pp. (ii), (i), 52, (ii)]. Leaf with title with decorative wood-engraved floral border with other vignettes by Nash, leaf with dedication 'To / MY LITTLE FLOWERS / ANN AND JUDITH', leaf with Bates' forward dated 'Little Chart, 1935' and Bates text illustrated with four full-page wood engravings, final leaf verso with justification and wood-engraved Golden Cockerel device. Original publisher's green morocco-backed marbled boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with their signature to foot of inner front board, gilt title to spine with gilt Golden Cockerell tool to foot, t.e.g. A beautiful Golden Cockerel production with beautiful illustrations by John Nash. From the edition limited to 325 numbered copies, with this one of 319 on Batchelor Hand-Made signed by Bates in blue ink to the justification; the copies numbered 301 - 325 were not offered for sale. 'This book is not a gardening book in the sense that the works of Farrer and Robinson and Miss Jekyll are gardening books; nor, I hope, is it a gardening book in the sense that certain recent creations by certain literary nit-wits are gardening books. I am not sure, in fact, that I am justified in calling it a gardening book at all, for it is a book that can be of no possible practical help to another gardener . It is a brief and in a horticultural sense an unambitious book about purely and simply as flowers, and the effect of flowers on my own life and the lives of my fellow-men . '. (H. E. Bates writing in his Introduction). 'The book of FLOWERS AND FACES has been printed in Golden Cockerel type by Christopher Sandford, Francis J. Newbery, Owen Rutter and Joan Grant at the Golden Cockerel Press, and completed on the first day of June, 1935. Compositors: A. H. Gibbs and E. J. Ward. Pressman: H. Barker.' (From the justification). [Chanticleer 106].…