Buy this book on-line LEWIS,C(live).S(taples): : THE COMPLETE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA - illus by Pauline BaynesLONDON.COLLINS,1998. ISBN 0583337694.
UK,Qrto HB, minus dw/dj,omnibus edn - 1st thus.[Published to celebrate C.S.Lewis centennary.] FINE.No owner inscrptn.Crisp, bright, colour pictorial, glossy laminated illustrated bds and immaculate plain,royal blue eps;with negligible shelf-wear and bumping to edges or corners - miniscule bumping with reciprocal creases to both head+foot of spine/backstrip.Headband,red silk bookmark sewn in,top+fore-edges bright and clean,
contents bright,tight and near pristine.Qrto,10-523pp [paginated] includes colour pictorial illustrated title-page,3pp intro by Brian Sibley,
contents list comprising the 7 'Narnia' titles, profuse hand-coloured illustrations throughout the text and book - all by Pauline Baynes.
Pauline Baynes, born in Sussex in 1922.Spent her early childhood in India, later studying at the Farnham School of Art and the Slade School of Fine
Art.During the war she worked for Army Camouflage,
and then for the Admiralty Hydrographic Dept.
After the war she returned to her work as a painter (tempera), designer and illustrator.In 1968, she won the Kate Greenaway Medal for her illustrations to A Dictionary of Chivalry, and she was runner-up for the prize in 1972.Her fluent
pen and ink style is particularly appropiate in line block reproduction.Her work is often inspired
by medieval manuscripts (e.g. Farmer Giles of Ham,
1946) or by Persian miniatures (e.g The Horse and His Boy,1954), and is extremely decorative.The imaginative flair and lively attention to detail in her illustrations make them well-suited to the spirit of such books as the 'Narnia' series by C.S. Lewis, all of which she has illustrated.
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