[Patric Dickinson, poet, and John Stanton Ward, artist.] Limited edition, signed by artist and poet: copy of 'Two Into One', 'Poems by Patric Dickinson / Drawings by John Ward'. With photographic print of study of Dickinson by Ward.

John Stanton Ward was a noted portrait painter, who resigned his membership of the Royal Academy in protest at the ‘Sensation’ show of 1997. See his obituaries in the Telegraph, Times, Guardian and Indpendent. Patric Dickinson has not received his due. A self-styled ‘poet and impresario of poetry’, Dickinson occupied a central position in the cultural landscape of post-war Britain. As an editor and broadcaster he worked with poets such as Dylan Thomas, Cecil Day Lewis and Roy Campbell, actresses Flora Robson, Peggy Ashcroft and Jill Balcon, and actors Robert Donat, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud. See John Mole’s obituary in the Independent, 31 January 1994. This item is from the papers of Dickinson’s mistress Sarah Emmeline Hamilton. (His extraordinary correspondence with her, including 171 original and mostly-unpublished poems, 474 autograph letters and 349 post cards, is offered separately). The present item is nicely printed in landscape 8vo. Thirty unpaginated pages, including twelve pages in six colour double-page spreads. In flecked grey cloth with black and gilt stamp on cover in imitation of a leather label. The book is in good condition, lightly aged, in worn and torn coloured illustrated dustwrapper. Copy No 31 of 750, signed by ‘Patric Dickinson’ and ‘John Ward’. An excellent collaboration, with the work presented in the nature of a notebook (Ward has written out the poems for reproduction: there is no letterpress). The artist engages creatively with the poet: sometimes the illustration surrounds the text, sometimes it submerges it. Some of the illustrations have a hallucinatory quality, with a multi-layered view of reality. Loosely inserted is a 17 x 23.5 cm black and white print of a drawing by Ward, a preparatory study of the portrait of Dickinson that is now in Rye Art Gallery. An uncommon item: apart from the British Library and Cambridge, the only copy thrown up by JISC at the University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury.