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Noakes, Aubrey : Charles Spencelayh and His Paintings

Jupiter, 1978

ISBN 0904041999

The jacket is marked and torn. Soundly bound. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Poor

1st Edition.

NOAKES,AUBREY: : CHARLES SPENCELAYH AND HIS PAINTINGS.

LONDON.JUPITER BOOKS (LONDON) LIMITED,1978.

ISBN 0904041999.

UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Charles SPENCELAYH 1865 - 1958.Born 27 October 1865 in Rochester,Kent.Died June 25,1958,Northampton.Genre painter,mainly of interiors, miniaturist and etcher.] NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,glossy laminated,yellow background with a colour photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with black+yellow lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present - and barely noticeable, sunned spine/backstrip.Top edges very,very lightly dust-soiled with some faint,sporadic spotting/foxing, fore-edges brighter and cleaner; contents (text block) bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain brown cloth bds with bright,crisp, stamped silver gilt letters to spine /backstrip and near immaculate plain tan eps.A production fault to front pastedown - pastedown with a vertical,folded pleat crease the length of the board,causing a concomitant wrinkling impression to ffe with some glue bleeding the length of gutter's edge; some glue bleeding also,to rear pastedown's spine's gutter edge - again the vertical length of the board.The front pastedown's fault has left an impression through to the following page (the blank).UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,11-190pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,author's introduction,11 chapters and an afterword,profuse contemporary, historical b/w illustrations with 4 illustrations in colour; similar subject's contemporary autobiographical photographs - all interspersed throughout the text of the first 11 chapters,18pp Spencelayh's b/w sketches,64 b/w paintings' plates - 4pp in colour, and appendices (I-III).The plates are arranges chronologically where dates are known,and otherwise by mood or theme.Plus [unpaginated] blank,half-title page with subject's b/w portrait photographic frntis to it's recto,title page,an epigram, contents list/table with a b/w vignette portrait illustration to it's recto,separator page,and at the rear; last page blank with a note on the typeface to it's recto. Described hard but fairly and honestly - nowhere as faulty as it reads or sounds.A very acceptable condition for the collector. The name of Charles Spencelayh is not as well known as his familiar paintings of old men pottering around in junk shops.Indeed,he was something of a mystery man,even to his fellow artists.Born in 1865,he began exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1892,and was still exhibiting there,at the age of ninety-two,in 1958,the year he died. Yet he was never made an R.A.,or even an A.R.A. (Associate).He continued to paint in his own way, ignoring passing trends and controversies. For many years Aubrey Noakes was fascinated by Spencelayh's contributions to the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions,which he himself attended in his capacity as an art critic.His quiet affection for the artist's work informs every page of this,the first study of Spencelayh. It is a vivid portrait based on lengthy conversations with the artist's only son,with his stepson and executor,and with many others who knew him,and also a careful study of his personal papers.Mr Noakes demolishes the myths that have grown up around Spencelayh - such as the statement that he never painted women. Spencelayh's indifference to changing fads and fashions enhanced the appeal of his paintings,which now command high prices in the auction-room.This timely study of a long-neglected artist will be welcomed by all those who enjoy Spencelayh's work.It is hoped that it will spark off a fresh wave of interest in Charles Spencelayh,the man and the artist. Aubrey Noakes's previous works include 'The World of Henry Alken' and 'Sportsmen in a Landscape' (both about sporting artists),and 'Horses, Hounds,and Humans' (on Surtees).He has been an art critic for forty-odd years and first became acquainted with the works of Charles Spencelayh when covering the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

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