Faber & Faber

Marking the end of our 80th anniversary celebrations, Faber is to exhibit items from its historic archive in a display describing its dedication to book design. The exhibition will be held in Gallery 74 at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London from 17th April until 30th May.

This display will demonstrate the importance of design at the centre of the company's publishing activity throughout its eighty-year history - from the selection and use of illustrators, to typography and the unique publishing history of books on art, design, architecture and crafts.

Illustrators, designers and photographers included are: Barnett Freedman, Fay Godwin, Axel Scheffler, Gwen Raverat, David Hockney, Berthold Wolpe, John Nash, Pentagram and Leonard Baskin.

For further information please contact Rebecca Pearson at Faber.

Selection of notable exhibits:

• The Modern Movement in Art by R. Wilensky
• Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon, illustrations by William Nicholson
• Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon, illustrations by Barnett Freedman
• Elmet by Ted Hughes with photos by Fay Godwin
• Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot, illustrations by Axel Scheffler plus original edition illustrated by T. S. Eliot
• The Modular by Le Corbusier
• Nineteenth-Century Ornamental Typefaces by Nicolete Gray
• Over the Garden Wall by E. Farjeon, illustrations by Gwen Raverat *original artwork displayed*
• Hockney's Alphabet edited by Stephen Spender, illustrations by David Hockney
• Crow by Ted Hughes, illustrations by Leonard Baskin
• The Coma by Alex Garland, illustrations by Nicholas Garland (his father)