HAROLD JONES (1904 - 1993)

For a long nd sustained period after 1945, Harold Jones' books were unique in the marketplace. He had a highhly characteristic use of colour and line, refusing the easy option and visual cliche for charged characterisation and a most unusual sense of composition. On the Narrative course, George Hardie, John Lord and I had the ambition to call and pay our most sincere resepcts to him as he lived and f=armed locally, we were told. As with so many ambitions, it never happened but this site is a sort of equivalent. I attach a few representative scans from Noah and the Ark, and my favourite book, The Enchanted Night, Faber, c1951 undated

 

01 jacket design for The Silent Playmate , a book about dolls, London 1979

02 endpapers from The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley, London, 1961,
 

03 The Alphabet Rhyme from Lavender's Blue , compiled by Kathleen Lines and pictured by Harold Jones OUP Oxford 1954.

04 from There and Back Again, written and illustrated by Harold Jones, OUP Oxford 1977
from Mystery Manor , p. 318.

05 dustjacket from Mystery Manor London 1937 (1941) .


06 from Pied Piper of Hamlyn , London 1962 p. 318.

07 the endpapers for M.E.Atkinson's Mystery Manor, London 1937 (1941)

 

08, 09, 10, 11 VIGNETTES from Lavender's Blue . from K.Lines A King of Tales published London 1958

 

 

 

Noah and the Ark

The Enchanted Night

Bless this Day

This Year Next Year 1937

The Forest Pop-Up 1981

August Adventure 1936