"Pick-Me-Up: Thirteen Drawings In Colour By Ian Fenwick With Thirteen Rhyming Recipes" 1933
$500
A. N. Other
The Centaur Press
1933
[13] pp.
6 1/4" x 9 1/4"
w/ Fortnum & Mason stamp
VG
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A stunning book with beautiful illustrations, oblong shape. In the original printed and colour illustrated paper boards, with a green cloth spine. Ian Fenwick was an artist and a soldier. He was born in September 1910 in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, the son of Captain Charles Harry Fenwick of the 60th Rifles, who had married an American socialite called Lilian Everett from Newport, Rhode Island. Ian’s father, who was known as Harry, had achieved fame of a sort by owning Why Not, which won the Grand National at Aintree in 1894. Ian was busy as an artist during the 1930s. His drawings appeared in many magazines, including Punch, Men Only, and London Opinion. His books, and books he illustrated, include: Pick-Me-Up