Genesis

This volume presents the first chapter of the Book of Genesis, the creation narrative in which God makes heaven and earth, light and dark, land and sea, plants, animals, and humankind in six days and rests on the seventh. Sebastian Carter's accompanying essay sets that text beside Paul Nash's 1924 sequence of woodcuts, explaining how the Nonesuch Press edition was designed and how the images treat void, division, and the making of living forms. The work is both scripture and a short study of an illustrated Genesis: the biblical opening of the world, and an account of one modern visual reading of it.

Bound in black cloth title blocked in gold with an orange paper dust wrapper. ‘French fold’ pages as in the Golden. Solander boxes bound in brown coloured papers with front and spine gilt title and front inset engraving.