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    Journey of the Magi

    Dec 15, 2021 2 minutes
    by T. S. Eliot

    IN 1927, the Bloomsbury publisher Faber and Gwyer (Faber & Faber from 1929) announced a new series of booklets ‘suitably decorated in colours and dressed in the gayest wrappers’, featuring Christmas-themed poems. With artwork supplied by established and rising talents, such as Paul and John Nash, Eric Ravilious, Eric Gill and Edward McKnight Kauffer, the publisher hoped they would find a place in the Christmas gift.

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