ARDIZZONE, Edward

TWO BOOKS; ‘Boyhoods of Great Composers: Book 1’ and ‘Boyhoods of Great Composers, Book 2:’

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TWO BOOKS;

‘Boyhoods of Great Composers: Book 1: Handel Mozart, Schubert, Mendleson, Grieg, Elgar’ AND

‘Boyhoods of Great Composers, Book 2: Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Vaughan Williams.’

TWO BOOKS. 8vo. Both bound with laminated bindings as issued. Published 1960, 1963 respectively. Fifty-three and fifty-eight pages respectively. Illustrated with black and white line drawings by Edward Ardizzone. On verso of decorative endpapers is the Surrealist bookplate of Andrew Murray. Both volumes a little dusty. The first volume has attached on the back endpaper a National Book league British Book Production 1961 label stating type used, manufactures used etc.

Size 22 x16cm (8.5 x 6 inches)

Item details

Provenance: Andrew Murray, Director of Mayor Gallery, Cork Street, London. The Mayor Gallery exhibited Ardizzone s work in the 1960 s. Andrew Murray lent his personal collection of books and prints etc. to the travelling exhibition by Middlesbrough Museum in 1982.

Item details

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 1960
Place: London
Book ID: 60002493

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