Whelpton Eric and Whelpton Barbara Crocker (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition, Presumed First printing. 125, [3] pages. Ink name and address written inside front board; a second ink name and inscription written inside front free endpaper appears to be signed by a British Lord. Includes Introduction, as well as chapters on Melbury Road, Holland Park Avenue, and District Melbury; Church Street and Campden Hill; Holland House and Holland Walk; Kensington Palace and Kensington Garden; Kensington Square and Victoria Grove; The Albert Memorial and South Kensington; and Brompton and South Kensington. Contains several brown and pink sketches of homes in the area. Some page discoloration noted. Eric George Whelpton (21 March 1894 - 13 February 1981) was an author, teacher and traveler. He entered Hertford College, Oxford in 1913. He taught at Christ Church Cathedral School. At Oxford, Whelpton became a close friend of Dorothy Sayers; upon him she perhaps based the character of Lord Peter Wimsey. Whelpton later taught French at King's College School, London, and was reader in comparative education at King's College London (1931-42). Following the death of her husband, Dorothy Sayers acted as Whelpton's literary secretary. During World War II, Whelpton worked as a BBC news correspondent in France and, as recounted in his travel book, The Balearics: Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza, he was told by a Swiss correspondent that he was on the Gestapo blacklist. His last two books, The Making of a European (1974) and The Making of an Englishman (1977), are largely autobiographical. He was married to the artist and writer Barbara Whelpton. The authors conclude that the many quiet streets and corners in Kensington provide much pleasure, but are also threatened by reconstruction. These areas must be protected from ruthless commercialism. If any rebuilding is done, it is important to reflect that our civilization is not made of material things, and that if you give people ugly and tasteless surroundings, their minds and their outlooks will deteriorate accordingly. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) is an Inner London borough with royal status. It is the smallest borough in London and the second smallest district in England; it is one of the most densely populated administrative regions in the United Kingdom. It includes affluent areas such as Notting Hill, Kensington, South Kensington, Chelsea, and Knightsbridge. The borough is immediately west of the City of Westminster and east of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. It contains major museums and universities in Albertopolis, department stores such as Harrods, Peter Jones and Harvey Nichols, and embassies in Belgravia, Knightsbridge and Kensington Gardens. The borough is home to the Notting Hill Carnival, Europe's largest, and contains many of the most expensive residential properties in the world. The local authority is Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council. Its motto, adapted from the opening words of Psalm 133, is Quam bonum in Unum habitare, which translates roughly as 'How good it is to dwell in unity'. Of its history the council states: "Despite the boroughs being separate originally, Kensington and Chelsea still retain their unique characters. Even the amalgamation of the two boroughs, unpopular as it was at the time, has been accepted. Today conservation combined with the adoption of sympathetic new architecture is seen as a key objective. In every corner of the borough signs of its history can be seen: from Grade 1 listed buildings Kensington Palace and the Royal Hospital, Chelsea to others recalled in street names such as Pottery Lane and Hippodrome Mews." In 200 years the area has been transformed from a "rural idyll" to a thriving part of the modern metropolis. Chelsea had originally been countryside upon which Thomas More built Beaufort House. He came to Chelsea in 1520 and built the house, which in his day had two courtyards laid out between the house and the river, and in the north of the site acres of gardens and orchards were planted. It was from here in 153. Barbara (Crocker) Whelpton (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. English tales of French life. Easy reading and entertaining. 192pp illustrated by Barbara Crocker. Signed on the half title by both husband and wife., dated July '53. Barbara Crocker (Mrs Whelpton) (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).

Nicholson and Watson, London. 1948. First edition. Hardback with DW. Illustrated with drawings. Slim 8vo. Blue cloth boards are marked and bumped. Wrapper is grubby and torn with loss to edges and corners. Contents clean.