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DENTON WELCH I LEFT MY GRANDFATHER'S HOUSE, privately printed by the Lion and Unicorn Press for James Campbell, 1958, Hardcover, this is no.28 /150, with an introduction by Helen Roeder, and illustrated by Leslie Jones (b.1934), printed black motif of a house and country lane on green cloth-boards and red cloth spine with gilt lettering. Written in 1943, this is a fictionalised account of Welch's first walking tour in the summer of 1933 when he was 18. It was left incomplete at the time of his death in 1948. His travels took him from his grandfather's house in Henfield in West Sussex through Hampshire, Wiltshire, Somerset and Devon. Leslie Jones is a landscape painter, printmaker and designer. He studied at Manchester and the Royal College of Art. Taught at the latter as well as at Hornsey, Kingston and St Martin’s Schools of Art. In 1967 he was appointed HM Inspector (Art and Design) Wales. see note to lot 4