[Manuscript Drawing Book:] 'The Garlon'.

Bookseller Notes

Faith Hallward was the eldest daughter of Reginald Hallward and Adelaide Bloxham - both of them artists, he particularly notable in the field of stained-glass design and also a poet. In this book, executed at the age of eleven, she shows herself to have inherited a measure of their talent, with a wit and imagination characteristic of a young mind. The illustrations include a depiction of the Hammersmith Boat Race and a victim of the Paris Bazaar Fire (in 1897), as well as drawings of animals and her siblings - one of whom, her sister Patience (called 'Patty' here), continued in their parents' line of work. Faith Hallward's greater inheritance proved to be poetic - she published work in James Guthrie's periodical 'Root & Branch', and a volume with Basil Blackwell in 1922 that included an introduction by Gordon Bottomley.