In 1920 Cyril Beaumont, for whom he had produced designs for booklets on the Russian ballet (L'Oiseau de Feu, The Three Cornered Hat, Thamar and Impressions of the Russian Ballet, all 1919) and two limited editions (Eclogues, a Book of Poems 1919 and The Smile of the Sphinx 1920), asked him to produce colour wood engravings for an edition of W.W. Gibson's Home for his Beaumont Press.
White's most important book illustrated with wood engravings is The Story of My Heart by Richard Jefferies, published by Duckworth in 1923.
[4] In the same year the Golden Cockerel Press published an edition of Spenser's Wedding Songs with colour wood engravings by White.
[2] His work, which became looser and more impressionistic as time progressed, consists of a very large number of oil painting and water colours.
In 1919 he married Elizabeth Crofton Dodwell, better known as Betty, and in the same year studied at St John's Wood School of Art in London.
[2] The unusually large scale of his independent engravings can be seen in the portfolio by Simon Lawrence's Fleece Press, published in 1992 in an edition of 200 copies.