Buy this book on-line BLAKE**, QUENTIN: : CLOWNLONDON.CAPE,1995. ISBN 0224045105.
UK,Qrto HB,no dw/dj,as issued(?),1st edn.
FINE.No owner inscrptn.Colour pictorial bds illustrated by Quentin Blake; with negligible shelf-wear and no bumping to edges,corners or spine/backstrip and immaculate unmarked,plain grey endpapers.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and clean also,with rear board showing minimal grubbing.UK,Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn,32pp [unpaginated] includes colour vignette illustrated title page and all pages with full-colour illustrations all by Quentin Blake - no text.
Roald Dahl's own favourite and principal illustrator,Blake illustrated several other books of the author's work,during the author's lifetime.He has also written and illustrated a great many of his own.Blake was the first Children's Laureate from 1999-2001.
Quentin Blake,born 1932,Sidcup,Kent.Son of a civil servant.Educated at Chiselhurst,Sidcup Grammar School and Cambridge University.Attended life classes at Chelsea College of Art.Tutor in illustration at the Royal College of Art (1965- 78) and Head of the Illustration Dept since 1978.He works in pen and ink and watercolour in a popular and unmistakeable style,capturing essential character and movement with wit and gaiety in a few rapid strokes.He has illustrated many editions of the BBC Jackanory television programme.
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