| 01 Osbert Lancaster Draynflete Revealed, John Murray
London 1949 22 x 29cms, . |
| 02 anon, Nursery Rhyme Land, London c1925 |
| 03 George R.Stewart's US 40, CROSS SECTION OF THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA, Houghton Mifflin Boston 1953, illustrations by Erwin
Reisz |
| 04 as for 03 |
05 Donald Foster / John Wood/ Quietest Under the Sun
, Museum Press London 1944; 21 x 27cms; an illustrated Guidebook to Mercia
and Mid Wales for the literate rambler.
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| 06 Geoffrey Robinson/ Hockley Clarke/ The Unfolding Year, Salisbury
Square, London, 1947/ 22 x29cms. the Village of Twyfield recorded during
twelve calendar months. |
| 07 Geofrey Wales/ Janet and John Hampden/ Sir Francis Drake's
Raid on the Treasure Trains, Folio Society, London 1954 21 x 28cms.
A map of the Caribbean where incident and cartographic conventions rather
put into the shade the geographical details of the coastline. |
| 08 Arthur Ransome/ Arthur Ransome/ Missee Lee, Cape,
London, 1941 20 x27cms; a children's fictitious adventure set off the coast
of China; here with clear colour coded tracks that correspond exactly with
the narrative. |
| 09 Harold Jones/M.E.Atkinson/ Mystery Manor, John Lane,
Bodley Head, London 1939, 20 x 26cms; and the most logical excuse for the
endpaper map - the Who Dunnit. A detective book for children with beautiful
drawings by Harold Jones. |
| 10 Richard Herrick/ Malcolm Saville/ Jane's Country Year,
Newnes, London 1946, 24 x 36cms , back end paper of the country around the
farm described in the book. |
| 11 Joan Hassall/ Frances Brett Young/ Portrait of a Village Heinemann
London 1937, 21 x 30cms. "I take this opportunity of declaring
that no village like it [Monk's Norton] has ever existed outside my imagination..." FBY |
| 12.A.M.Highes, J.K.Stanford, Bledgrave Hall, Country Book Club, London
1953, 20 x 27cms., and an account of efforts to encourage avocets to breed
in the marshland around Bledgrave Hall. |
13 Melville Colley/Melville Colley/The Bamboo Bird, Press,
London 1947, 25 x 35cms. an illustrated book for children , a Bamboo Bird
hatches and saves Chinese twins from an Evil spell.
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| 14 George Him/ Ann Thwaite/ The Day with the Duke, Brockhampton
Leicester 1969; an illustrated book for children about a girl and a boy
who spend the day at a Stately Home - and are driven home in the carriage
at the end of the Day. For George Him, see Archive |
| 15 . Robin Tanner/Helen Tanner/ Wiltshire Village, Collins,
London, 1939. The classic visual and literary study of an English village
with illustrations of great beauty. In so many ways the map is a model of
what it should be. |
16 . Rockwell Kent/ Rockwell Kent , Wilderness A Journal of Quiet
Adventure in Alaska, Blue Ribbon, New York 1920, 28 x 34 cms. Not
so much a bird's eye view but that of one of Kent's idealised spirits.
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