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Bain no. 24. Inscribed in graphite: "Richard Shirley Smith."

Bain nos. 24 and 27, printed together on a single sheet. Inscribed in graphite: "Richard Shirley Smith."

First edition. Published in Canada by McClelland & Stewart, Ltd. Composition by Clarke & Way, New York, printed by Halliday Lithograph Corp., West Hanover, Massachusetts and bound by H. Wolff, New York. This copy of Water & Life was sent to Shirley Smith by the London publisher Andre Deutsch with the commission to design a new dust jacket for a contemplated British edition. Shirley Smith's design was printed in proof and he put it on this copy of the New York edition. The Deutsch edition was never released. 'Jacket design by Richard Shirley-Smith.' Shirley Smith's copy with his studio library ex libris.

The items were housed in a file labeled "Webb Family Snaps and L.J.W. at Various Stages of her Career. Australian Family and Friends." They are now removed to a new folder; the original is retained.

Draft headed "Wedgwood Plate Notes" with extensive corrections in pencil. These are preliminary thoughts for what was to be Leighton's full page of text in the printed prospectus. Leighton describes her process for selecting the industries to be portrayed and her experience working with New Englanders. She writes: "True, they had the same arms and legs, the same far off, keen look in their eyes that you find in all fishermen, everywhere, the same angular bonyness of all tillers of the soil. And yet, in some indefinable way there was a difference. Something happens to a man's face and stance when he battles the cold. I must be able to show this, with engraving tools, on wood." She also describes her decision to "emblazon the tools of each industry at the foot of the plate" to "secure for posterity man's artifacts, and show the eternal and universal nobility of their shapes."

Uncorrected draft incorporating many of the penciled changes from draft 1.