Barchester Towers / illustrations by Edward Ardizzone

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Trollope, Anthony. Barchester Towers / illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Oxford: Geoffrey Cumberlege: Oxford University Press, 1953. The Oxford Trollope Crown Edition. 2 volumes. First edition, thus. Hardback, VG+, no dustjackets. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Volume 1 has a small mark on front board. Bindings strong and tight. Frontispiece plates, with further plates and illustrations in the text. pp. ix, 282 + vii, 279, with notes. Contents clean and bright. Edward Ardizzone, CBE RA (16 October 1900 8 November 1979), who sometimes signed his work "DIZ", was an English painter, print-maker and war artist, and the author and illustrator of books, many of them for children. For Tim All Alone (Oxford, 1956), which he wrote and illustrated, Ardizzone won the inaugural Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association for the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject. Beside writing and illustrating his own books, Ardizzone also illustrated books written by others, including some editions of Anthony Trollope and H. E. Bates's My Uncle Silas. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-1644345962417

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