Marrin's Bookshop

Item Description

4to. 10 x 9.25 inches. 144 pp. Bound in original black cloth, gilt, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper, which has sunned spine and creases on top edge of rear wrapper; otherwise a very good copy. Gift inscription on first free endpaper. Illustrated by 24 colour plates and by numerous black and white text figures. Well illustrated survey of folk art in Britain. Naive, popular or unsophisticated art was a concept much better understood in the USA than in Britain. This study examines various types and categories of folk art, including techniques and materials, inn shop and trade signs, weathervanes, travellers, the fair and circus, marine and canal boats, domestic items and treen, toys and craft industries.