The Work of E H Shepard by Rawle Knox Editor (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 256pp, illustrated throughout. Brown cloth-covered boards, gilt design on front, gilt titles on front and spine. 4to. . Lightly rubbed spine ends. Top text block edge just starting to tan. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket sun-faded, has light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, not price clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 256pp, colour and black and white in-text illustrations. Brown cloth-covered boards; gilt design on front, gilt titles on front and spine. 4to. Sun-faded bottom board edges, rubbed bottom front corner and spine ends, a little cocked. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket spine sun-faded, has 2cm closed tear top rear corner, light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, not price clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. The Work of E H Shepard; edited by Rawle Knox; McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1979. Printed in Great Britain. From the blurb This volume, published to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ernest Shepard, offers the best and most characteristic of his whole range of work; it also provides a balanced appreciation of the man as artist and companion. Edward H. Shepard, Kipper to his family and friends, is perhaps best known and loved for the children's illustrations he did for the work of A. A. Milne and for his incomparable drawings for Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. His output, however, was considerable and altogether he illustrated somewhere near to a hundred books. Over a period of fifty years he also had weekly drawings in Punch magazine and these too are represented here. Contributions to this volume include H. F. Ellis, for many years assistant editor of Punch, Penelope Fitzgerald, author of the definitive biography of Edward Burne-Jones, and art historian Bevis Hillier. It is Bevis Hillier who has the last word on Shepard's place in the history of English illustration I see him as the end of a tradition, not the beginning of one. He is the last of the great Victorian black and white men. Illustrated with over three hundred drawings and paintings, many in colour. This book is in fine condition in a fine dust jacket that is now in a protective mylar wrap.

First edition. 4to. 256 pp. 300 illustrations in color & b/w. Cloth in dustwrapper, fine copy. (90298).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Ernest H. Shepard. (illustrator). First Edition. 256 pp, large 8vo (9 7/8" H). Profusely illustrated in b&w and colour. "This volume, published to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ernest Shepard, offers the best and most characteristic of his whole range of work; it also provides a balanced appreciation of the man as artist and companion. Ernest H Shepard, 'Kipper' to his family and friends, is perhaps best known - and loved - for the children's illustrations he did for the work of A.A. Milne and for his incomparable drawings for Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in the Willows'. His output, however, was considerable and altogether he illustrated somewhere near to a hundred books. Over a period of fifty years he also had weekly drawings in Punch magazine and these too are represented here." Contents: Preface; 1879-1897: A Victorian boyhood; 1897-1914: The making of an artist (1. Willingly to work and marriage; 2. The development of the line - by Penelope Fitzgerald); 1914-1920: Guns, mud and separation; 1920-1940: Success, tragedy and professionalism; Ernest and the Punch Table by H.F. Ellis; 1940-1955: War again - and regeneration; 1955-1976: The unfading old soldier; A master of line by Bevis Hiller; Bibliography and acknowledgements; Index. Two tiny stains on free rear endpaper, small scuff on top of text block, tiny soiling mark on bottom of text block, bookplate on free front endpaper. Dust jacket has light edge wrinkling at top edge - mainly at top of spine.