Tuesday, 30 March 2010

"Henry IV Part1" Published by Cambridge University Press 1958 (Cover design by Cecil Keeling)

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This jacket is so good - there's so much going on in these four faces yet still eye-catching as a book cover. All illustrations and desi...
Thursday, 25 March 2010

"Some Tales Of Mystery And Imagination" by Edgar Allan Poe, with engravings by Douglas Percy Bliss (Penguin Illustrated Classics, 1938) -part two

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The last five wood-engravings by Douglas Percy Bliss from this book. Here's also the title page illustration - it does remind me of Will...
Tuesday, 23 March 2010

"Some Tales Of Mystery And Imagination" by Edgar Allan Poe, with engravings by Douglas Percy Bliss (Penguin Illustrated Classics, 1938) -part one

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So pleased to have this book in my collection - each one of these ten engravings is fantastic. Brilliant compositions with such variation in...
Tuesday, 16 March 2010

"It must be true - it was all in the papers" - Denys Parsons, illustrated by Ronald Searle (published by Macdonald & Co, London 1952) - part three

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Wednesday, 10 March 2010

"It must be true - it was all in the papers" - Denys Parsons, illustrated by Ronald Searle (published by Macdonald & Co, London 1952) - part two

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Some more drawings from this amazing book - you can read some of the accompanying text to get an idea of what the stories were about... ...
Tuesday, 9 March 2010

"It must be true - it was all in the papers" - Denys Parsons, illustrated by Ronald Searle (published by Macdonald & Co, London 1952) - part one

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This has to be the most precious item in my collection yet! Early work by Ronald Searle, so striking and fresh after so many decades! There ...
Saturday, 6 March 2010

"Winner-93" Toy box cover from 1973

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Found this in the attic, left by the previous owners. It does have a signature (which I can't make out) and a date! I love the naive bu...