Buy this book on-line SEAGO, EDWARD: : WITH THE ALLIED ARMIES IN ITALYLONDON,COLLINS,1945. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,slim Qrto HB minus dw/dj,1st edn.Owner inscrptn and contemporary date (25th September 1945) to a white card 4.5" wide x approx 3.5" high pasted to reverse of front free endpaper.Publisher's original plain red cloth boards/covers with some grubbing,residual white paint splash to rear board's fore-edge, minor other discolouration and other imperfections commensurate with book's age,and dulled,stamped gilt letters to sunned spine/backstrip,negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing and minimally bumped corners,tiny snick tear at foot of spine, b/w+red+blue WW2 wartime map of Italy illustrated eps,both hinges solid and sound without any cracking.Top edges darkened.fore-edges brighter and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.UK, Qrto HB minus dw/dj,1st edn,7-102pp [paginated] includes contents list/table, foreword by Field-Marshal Sir Harold Alexander,text to accompany paintings, captioned b/w+colour illustrations by Seago,separated into Groups I,II,and III comprising 35 (frntis included),29 and 40 paintings respectively,but not necessarily in correct order - due to production difficulties,plus [unpaginated] half-title page,colour illustrated portrait (F-M Harold Alexander) frntis,title page, author's note with 2-verse poem to its reverse.
A collection of Seago's painting made when he travelled with the Allies in Italy during the Autumn of 1944 up to December, 1944.
Edward Brian Seago (1910-74) Worked as Edward Seago,born in Norwich.From early childhood,he suffered from a mysterious, intermittent heart complaint for most of his life and,was confined to bed for much of his childhood,and had little formal education.
However,he won a Royal Drawing Society Prize at the age of 14 and later studied privately under the landscape painter Bernard Priestman RA.He spent several years travelling with circuses in Britain and abroad (1928-33),exhibiting circus drawings and paintings,but subsequently became known as a landscape, portrait and animal painter.many of his book illustrations were in fact reproductions of his drawings and paintings with accompanying texts.Elected RBA (1946),and RWS (1959).
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