Ɵ SITWELL, Sacheverell. (1897 - 1988). Canons of Giant Art Twenty Torsos in Heroic Landscapes, Author's Presentation to Edmund Blunden. Faber and Faber, 1933. single volume, first edition of 2000 copies, publisher's red cloth, silver decorated and lettered spine, dustwrapper unclipped, silver top, foredge and lower edge untrimmed, inscribed and dated by the author ink black to Edmund Blunden on front free e/p., 'To Edmund Blunden / from / Sacheverell Sitwell / 15. viii. 33', wood-engraving to title page after Enid Lacey, half-title, dedicated to Edith Sitwell, many leaves uncut, 225pp., NPG. tissue wrapping with label. Edmund Blunden (1896-1974), was an English poet, author and critic. Blunden, like his friend Siegfried Sassoon, wrote of his experiences in WW1. He served on the Western Front, in action at Ypres, the Somme and Passchendaele. Blunden was awarded the Military Cross in 1917. Edith Sitwell prepared a small edition of Wilfred Owen's war poems (for which Siegfried Sassoon wrote an introduction) entitled 'The Poems of Wilfred Owen', (Chatto and Windus, 1920). Even today many people are unaware that Edith Sitwell edited this collection. Edmund Blunden produced a later edition in 1930, which became an important force in reviving and maintaining interest in Owen's poetry. National Portrait Gallery Exhibition. The Sitwells: 14/10/94 - 22/1/95. Catalogue No. f61 / 6.51b. Provenance: The Sitwell Family Library, Weston Hall. Condition Report some marks to red cloth, corners a little scuffed, spine bumped head/tail, dustwrapper marked with edge nicks and a tear to front lower corner, internally clean.