War Pictures by British Artists
RICHMOND,, Sir Herbert, [J.B., MORTON,, ]J. B., MORTON,, H. E., BATES,, Colin, COOTE.
War at Sea [with] Blitz [with] RAF [with] Army. [Series I complete].
BRIGHT, CLEAN SET OF THE FIRST SERIES
Published: Oxford University Press, 1942
Stock code: 46894
Price: £120.00
4 vols., sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 194 toned full-page illustrations in the text; original plain wrappers, hinges starting as usual (but all bindings wholly sound), one backstrip scuffed else a very good, bright, clean set in pictorial dustwrapper.
No.1: War at Sea; No. 2: Blitz; No. 3: R.A.F.; No. 4: Army. Complete set of the first series with fine reproductions of paintings, drawings and sketches by virtually all Britain's leading war artists. The contributors naturally featured many of the most eminent artists of the period, including (among many others) Ardizzone, Bawden, Bone, Kennington, Moore, Nash, Piper, Ravilious, Rothenstein, Spencer, Sutherland, Topolski and Worsley. A second series (dealing primarily with the Home Front) was published separately in the following year. UNCOMMON AS A SET, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Eads, A43 (recording H. E. Bates' introduction to 'RAF').