In this environment there was no reason for a retailer to specialise, hence the diversification noted by Burke, and the accompanying loss of distinctiveness. His four-volume series 'Ravilious in Pictures' (Mainstone Press) celebrates the life and work of English designer, printmaker and watercolourist Eric Ravilious (1903-42), exploring the stories and characters concealed behind his mesmerizing paintings. Although the book was not a limited edition, the destruction of the lithographic plates during the Blitz meant that only 2000 copies were ever printed. Other discoveries have opened unexpected avenues and offered valuable insights into artist and work. Written in large part for middle school children, High Street is a survey of the businesses to be found along a typical high street in the 1930s.

A superb, near fine copy, showing only trivial wear to the spine ends and corners and a prize label (to Paul Sharp) to the front pastedown, in a very good glassine with a couple of minor chips and two closed tears. Subsequently High Street has become one of the most highly-prized artist's books of its time, indeed so great is the demand for work by Eric Ravilious that damaged copies are often taken apart and the plates sold individually as prints.Eric Ravilious (22 July 1903 – 2 September 1942) was an exceptional watercolourist, wood engraver and designer. Eric Ravilious (1903 - 42) was a painter, designer, illustrator and wood engraver and remains one of the best-known English artists of the 1930s. Much praise should be reserved to Jim Richards for his illuminating and highly detailed descriptions. Here at last, after all this long time, is “High Street” and I send you a copy as a sort of Christmas present .

A close friend of Edward Bawden, he evoked the English landscape, culture and customs in his striking watercolours and ceramic designs. Follow these links for location maps you might like to look at if you're reading Ravilious in Pictures: Sussex and the Downs or Ravilious in Pictures: A Country Life. When one could watch the butcher cutting the meat, enjoy the smell of the coffee grinder and the baking of bread. Sir James Maude Richards (1907–1992) was editor of Architectural Review from 1937 to 1971 and architectural correspondent of The Times for more than twenty years.First edition, sole impression; 8vo; 24 colour lithograph plates and plain wood-engraved title vignette by Eric Ravilious; publisher's pictorial boards, with the 'transmatic' dust jacket and printed card flaps, a superb copy in the rare cellophane dust-jacket with printed paper flaps, cellophane shrunk as usual with front flap separated, nevertheless a stunning copy of a vulnerable book. Small bump to bottom corner of front cover, otherwise fine in fine card slipcase (apparently most copies were issued without the slipcase). These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

Eric Ravilious (1903-42) was a painter, designer, illustrator and wood engraver and remains one of the best-known English artists of the 1930s. The window is lined with oyster shells to show that pearl fishing is one of the most important uses of diving apparatus. James Russell’s writing has the clarity and concision of the paintings, and is both properly informative and enjoyably readable. there is probably no-one else who could have made these records at once so faithfully and imaginatively.As a result he's not quite as well known as his friends and contemporaries Paul Nash and Edward Bawden, but his cult status is rapidly turning into full blown 'major important artist' status. M. Richards, was eventually published by Noel Carrington, brother of the artist Dora Carrington and editor at Country Life Books. Profusely illustrated throughout, mostly in colour, including reproductions of all 24 plates from the original edition of "High Street". Its importance in Ravilious’s oeuvre was assured, and a copy was displayed in the memorial exhibition organised by the Arts Council in 1948. One of the most celebrated - and rarest - British illustrated books of the early twentieth century, High Street combines the stunning lithographic art of Eric Ravilious with eloquent architectural commentary from J.