Full Product Details
Author: Osbert Lancaster ,
James Knox ,
James Knox
Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC
Imprint: Frances Lincoln
Dimensions:
Width: 18.50cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 24.00cm
Weight: 0.839kg
ISBN: 9780711229389
ISBN 10: 0711229384
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 02 October 2008
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
A splendid homage to cartoonist and illustrator Osbert Lancaster. Publishing News A beautifully presented book!Knox accompanies a bounty of illustration with a text that complements, providing real insight into Lancaster, his inspirations, friends and contemporaries. Publishing News Lancaster's talents were many and this is a gorgeous anthology to displat them. Daily Express This is a brilliantly researched and colourfully illustrated chronicle of cartoonist Osbert Lancaster. James Knox, former publisher of The Spectator, has done great justice to this prolific social and architectural satirist. Field A sparkling book about a witty man. Full of good things and provides a long-overdue appreciation. Who better than Maudie Littlehampton to cheer us up in these dark days? Spectator
A splendid homage to cartoonist and illustrator Osbert Lancaster. Publishing News A beautifully presented book...Knox accompanies a bounty of illustration with a text that complements, providing real insight into Lancaster, his inspirations, friends and contemporaries. Publishing News Lancaster's talents were many and this is a gorgeous anthology to displat them. Daily Express This is a brilliantly researched and colourfully illustrated chronicle of cartoonist Osbert Lancaster. James Knox, former publisher of The Spectator, has done great justice to this prolific social and architectural satirist. Field A sparkling book about a witty man. Full of good things and provides a long-overdue appreciation. Who better than Maudie Littlehampton to cheer us up in these dark days? Spectator
Author Information
"Sir Osbert Lancaster was the only cartoonist ever to be knighted. He produced several books on architecture. From 1939 onwards he produced cartoons for the Daily Express, using his character Maudie Littlehampton to satirise upper-class preoccupations. He died in 1986. James Knox wrote the acclaimed biography of cult 1930s travel writer, Robert Byron, published by John Murray in 2003, which was hailed by Patrick Leigh Fermor as ""surpassing all expectations."" Byron was a contemporary and friend of Lancaster's and their social worlds overlapped. Knox has also written extensively about art and architecture for Country Life, The Spectator and The Daily Telegraph. He has broadcast on Byron for the BBC and spoken at literary festivals. Knox is also a publisher with an MBA. He ran The Spectator in the 1980s and is currently Managing Director of The Art Newspaper, the ""bible of the art world"". In 2007, Knox was also highly instrumental in saving for the nation, Dumfries House, an Adam masterpiece filled with Chippendale furniture."
