THE HAMPSHIRE AVON. By Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald. With twenty-seven illustrations.

THE HAMPSHIRE AVON. By Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald. With twenty-seven illustrations.

OLD FATHER THAMES. By Peter Stone. With illustrations by John Searl.

OLD FATHER THAMES. By Peter Stone. With illustrations by John Searl.

TUNNICLIFFE'S COUNTRYSIDE. By Ian Niall. Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe.

1983 1st edition. Large 4to (233 x 299mm). Pp216. Colour paintings and b/w engravings throughout, bibliography, maroon end-papers. Cream boards, spine titled in gilt.

This is a good collection of illustrations presented in chrological order, illustrating Tunnicliffe's ouput as a book illustrator. Each illustration is accompanied by a short excerpt of the text which it illustrated. "This book covers the years between 1932 and 1977 when (Tunnicliffe) illustrated so many country books that in his old age he could never be sure just how many he had done. In fact, there were eighty-eight. He didn't accept every commission offered, but undertook only those books he felt he understood. ...For many, black and white wood-engravings and scraperboards represent the best of Tunnicliffe's work. Their preference has been ...well catered for in the present collection - because, of course, black-and-white accounted for the greater part of the artist's output as an illustrator." Chapters include: A demonstrably gifted man; A whiff of nostalgia - My Country Book; The farm scene - Both Sides of The Road; The first milestone - from A Book of Birds, to Wild Life in a Southern County (24 titles); Dreams and wonderland - from Adventuring with a Nomad, to What to Look for in Winter (14 titles); The call of the wild - Shorelands Summer Diary; Beloved country - Mereside Chronicle.
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Book Code
51148
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Author Niall (Ian). [Tunnicliffe (C.F.).]
Book Code 51148
ISBN 0907745024 / 0907745024.
Book Description Slight foxing and use, abrasions to several pages formerly adhering to one another, illustrations largely unaffected. Good in used, tape-repaired dust-wrapper.
Book Cover Hardcover
Published Date 1983
Publisher Clive Holloway Books.
Place London.