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Forefathers

This is an uncommon title. Carr described the book in his History of the QTP as a brief essay on Anglo-Norse carvings. The text and 16 drawings are all done by hand. I have only seen one copy of the purple edition and four copies of the orange edition, two of which are in Kettering Public Library. Perhaps Carr only had a few copies printed, not the usual 3,000 (History of the QTP, 1987). I suspect that he was not happy with the purple copy, because it was hard to see clearly, so had the covers reprinted, but I could be wrong.

There are no copies of Forefathers listed in UK university libraries or in WorldCat.

Carr commissioned Chris Fiddes to illustrate and add the text to a poem by Edmund Blunden also called Forefathers, which can be seen here.

(Last updated on 28/5/2021)

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Rear and front covers

 

Left: Inside front cover;       Right: inside rear cover

The copy illustrated above was withdrawn from the Imperial War Museum. The museum has in their collection a copy of the poems of Edward Thomas published by Carr which has the same accession number (81/1849), so perhaps Carr had sent them both at the same time. The 81 is presumed to refer to the year 1981. There are no copies of Forefathers listed on JISC Library Hub. The company I bought it from specialises in selling books no longer wanted by libraries.

It is possible that Carr was not happy with the dark purple card used for the cover with black lettering and changed it to the cover shown below and abandoned this impression. But why send a copy to the Imperial War Museum? Perhaps it was to hand when he sent the copy of the poems of Edward Thomas? Other than the colour of the card used for the cover, these two impressions are identical.

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Rear and front covers

 

Left: Inside front cover        Right: inside rear cover

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