Buy this book on-line HILL**, SUSAN: : The Christmas Collection - illus by JOHN LAWRENCELONDON.WALKER BOOKS,1994. ISBN 0744525012.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Negligible creasing to bottom edge of front wrap with some minimal laminate wrinkling to rear,lower edge also.8vo,144pp.B/w wood-engraving head+tail pieces,full-page wood-engravings also in text by John Lawrence.
Anthology of five Christmas stories,tales of Christmas past and present,in the country and in the city,among the rich and the poor,the young and the old - Christmas in it's many moods and aspects.
Read of lonely Mr Hegarty's moving discovery in 'King of Kings' and of a young girl's eventful last country Christmas in 'Lanterns Across the Snow'.
Enjoy the poignant,fairy-tale magic of 'The Glass Angels' and the lyrical beauty of the award winning nativity prose-poem 'Can it be True'.Share a child's raptuous enjoyment of snow in 'White Christmas'.
John Lawrence,born in Hastings,Sussex,1933,son of a company representative.Educated at the Salesian College,Cowley,Oxford.Studied at Hastings School of Art (1951-53) and at the Central School of Arts and Crafts under Gertrude Hermes (1955-57).Part-time lecturer at Maidstone College of Art(1958-60),Brighton College of Art(1960-69) and Camberwell School of Art(since 1960).Book illustrator,book plate and press mark designer (e.g. for the Baselisk Press and Julia Macrae Books),relief printmaker.He is well known for his wood engravings in which he uses a wide range of tools to create elaborate effects of pattern and texture, giving emphasis to his forms by means of varied multiple outlines in white and black.He also works in pen and ink or pencil,sometimes with colour washes.His work has mainly been published by the Folio Society, Hamish Hamilton and Kestrel Books.
Prize winner in the Francis Williams Book Illustration Award for both 1972 and 1977.
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