Marrin's Bookshop

Item Description

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.