Archie & the Strict Baptists. This item is unavailable.Archie & the Strict Baptists

Good, 19x25cm. Wonderful colour illustration to every page by Phillida Gili. Gili has interpreted the authors own rough sketches into full colour illustrations which delightfully portray Archie's unusual character and adventurous spirit. Title page lightly creased. Endpapers free from inscription. Bound within bright yellow cloth covered boards, with gold gilt embossing of Archie the bear to upper and gilt titles to spine; a little marked and rubbed to edges but in good condition. Displayed within original dustwrapper; fully illustrated in colour and in good condition with a small amount of wear to edges.

John Betjeman was born in London on 28 August 1906. He was educated at Marlborough and Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1931 his first book of poems, 'Mount Zion', was published by an old Oxford friend, Edward James. His second book was 'Ghastly Good Taste', a commentary on architecture, published in 1934. He was knighted in 1969 and was appointed Poet Laureate in 1972. John Betjeman died on 19 May 1984 at his home in Trebetherick, Cornwall and was buried at the nearby church of St Enodoc.