Twenty Most Favourite Songs of Burns - Hardcover

Burns, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0856831751 ISBN 13: 9780856831751

Publisher: Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

Twenty Most Favourite Songs of Burns

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Review:

Loving calligraphy and watercolour sketches are used to illustrate the greatest Burns songs. The book has a pastoral, handwrought labour of love feel to it. THE SCOTSMAN In watercolour and calligraphy, this presentation of 'Twenty Most Favourite Songs of Burns' is delicate and sensitive, the realisation of a dream conceived in youth...' SCOTTISH BOOK COLLECTOR

About the Author:

Andrew Winton was born in Lanarkshire in 1917. He attended the Edinburgh College of Art where he studied calligraphy and after the war received his Diploma in Typography and Textile Design. During the war he spent many years as a POW, had several escapes, and between times entertained fellow prisoners. He subsequently had a distinguished career as a teacher of Art in secondary schools. For over fifty years he has been in demand at Burns gatherings. Andrew Winton was born in Lanarkshire in 1917. He attended the Edinburgh College of Art where he studied calligraphy and after the war received his Diploma in Typography and Textile Design. During the war he spent many years as a POW, had several escapes, and between times entertained fellow prisoners. He subsequently had a distinguished career as a teacher of Art in secondary schools. For over fifty years he has been in demand at Burns gatherings.

About this edition

• Publisher: Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0856831751
• ISBN 13: 9780856831751
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 136
• Editor: Winton Andrew