SCRAPBOOKS.

Published by Lund Humphries in association with The Fry Art Gallery., London, 2016

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Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, Kent, United KingdomMarrins Bookshop

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4to. 12 x 9.75 inches. 208 PP. Bound in black cloth, gilt over pictorial stiff boards. Fine copy, as new condition. Illustrated throughout by black and white and colour, including frontispiece, facsimiles. Pictorial endpapers. Five large scrapbooks of ephemera were assembled over fifty five years by the artist, illustrator and designer, Edward Bawden (1903-89). They 'are the closest thing we have to an autobiography of this most reclusive and English of artists.' The contents of this selection include stamps, photographs, cigarette cards, Christmas cards, letters, newspaper cuttings and drawings, as well as examples of Bawden's own art. At the end are a list of Personalities and a Chronology. The Scrapbooks, are are held at the Fry Art Gallery, Saffron Walden, Essex. Edited by Peyton Skipwith (b.1939), independent fine art consultant and Brian Webb (b.1945), visiting professor of the University of the Arts, London. Both have published other studies of Bawden and other members of his circle. ART / LITERATURE SCRAP BOOK ARTS- 20TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED ART / LITERATURE.…

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Title
SCRAPBOOKS.
Author
BAWDEN, EDWARD. SKIPWITH, PEYTON and WEBB, BRIAN, edited by.
Publisher
Lund Humphries in association with The Fry Art Gallery., London
Publication year
2016

Marrins Bookshop

Folkestone, Kent, United Kingdom

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Founded by Patrick Marrin's father George in 1946, Marrin's Bookshop has been based in its current Folkestone location since 1963. Patrick has worked in bookselling since 1970. As well as rare antiquarian books, maps and prints, the stock includes a wide range of literature, library sets, travel, history and illustrated books in all fields. We also offer a bookbinding and restoration service. Visitors to the shop are welcome and we exhibit at UK book fairs. A large proportion of our stock can be searched on this website, or at http://www.marrinbook.co.uk.…

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science and medicine, Natural history, maps and prints, Antiquarian books, History of Kent and English topography

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