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London: Thames & Hudson, 2022. Hardback book. 100pp plus unpaginated Afterword. Dust jacket. Facsimile reproduction of the original book published in 1938 by Country Life Ltd. Only 2,000 copies of the original were published before the lithographic plates were destroyed in the London Blitz (hence their scarcity and huge price today). This classic work brought together the timeless illustrations of Eric Ravilious with a fascinating text by the architectural historian J. M. Richards. Shops include the family butcher, the cheesemonger, the baker and confectioner and the oyster bar, as well as specialised establishments such as the plumassier, the clerical outfitter and the submarine engineer. This beautiful facsimile edition features all 24 of Ravilious's colour illustrations and includes an essay by Gill Saunders, Senior Curator of Prints at the Victoria and Alberrt Museum, that sets the book in its historical context. As new and unread. Dust jacket as new and unclipped.
High Street by Ravilious, Eric & J.M. Richards - 1938
by Ravilious, Eric & J.M. Richards
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High Street
by Ravilious, Eric & J.M. Richards
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London: Country Life Press, 1938. First edition. Boards. Illustrated boards in blue, black and brown. Very good. Ravilious, Eric. 102 pages. 23.3 x 15.3 cm. Wood engraved title vignette and twenty four color lithographed illustrations by Ravilious of English shop fronts most of them in London -- an infinite variety from an undertaker to a baker to an oyster bar. The Foreword and text by James Maude Richards, noted architectural writer. This classic rather fragile picture book printed by the Curwen Press was produced in a single run of 2000 copies, and printed later in facsimile (2008), as the plates were destroyed in World War II bombing raid. Ravilious died in 1942, when his aircraft was lost off the coast of Iceland on a search mission. Nicks to spine ends and corners.
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- Illustrator Ravilious, Eric
- Format/Binding Boards
- Book Condition Used - Illustrated boards in blue, black and brown. Very good
- Edition First edition
- Publisher Country Life Press
- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 1938
- Keywords Literature
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High Street
by Richards, J. M. and Ravilious, Eric
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780500480793 / 0500480796
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