Buy this book on-line STRANG**, HERBERT: : ON LONDON RIVERLONDON.OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS/HUMPHREY MILFORD,1929. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB,no dw/dj,1st edn.[A 1st edn title,as opposed from the other entirely smaller and later reprints issues,of Strang's historical series.] VG+.No owner inscrptn but previous bookseller ink price to ffe and no dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean with very mild age-soiling,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,beige cloth boads/covers with a block-stamped 2-colour (black+blue/grey) sailing ship and quayside within an upright rectangular panel to centre of front board/cover with same 2-colours double-line vertical borders and black lettering,spine/ backstrip with a smaller same 2-colour but different illustration within a vertical rectangular panel and 2-colour double line vertical border and black lettering,rear board/cover is plain and undecorated with minimal age-soiling,clean plain white endpapers.With negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks,tears,splits or fraying present.Top edges ubiquitously aged/toned with some minimal sporadic foxing,fore- edges slightly cleaner and also with similar foxing - all edges with much less than normally encountered or would expect for a book of its age; contents bright, tight,clean - some minimal sporadic foxing /spotting,no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread - apart from my own collation.UK,Crown 8vo HB,no dw/dj,1st edn,8-303pp [paginated] includes (XXVI) 26 chapters,5 half-tone illus include frntis,by Terence Cuneo - all called for and present,interspersed throughout the text and the book,plus [unpaginated] half-title,colour frntis, title page,a dated prefatory note (Sept 1929),contents list/table with recto of that list paginated 8,and an illustration list/table with blank recto.
A boys' adventure story set in the early years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I's,London social life.Based on historical facts,about Sir Thomas Gresham.
Terence Tenison Cuneo [b. 1907 - d.1996.] Son of Cyrus Cincinnato Cuneo [1879-1916.] and Nell Marion Tenison [1861-1953], artists who met whilst studying with Whistler in Pais.Born in Shepherd's Bush, London.As a child,he was taught painting by his mother,but was later,more influenced by his father's work.He studied at the Chelsea School of Art and the Slade School of Art.He was most active as an illustrator during the 1930s when he contributed extensively to a number of contemporary magazines and annuals, especially 'The Illustrated London News,as did his father before him.During the War, Cuneo was commissioned by the Foreign Office to produce anti-Nazi drawings and cartoons and an exhibition of his war works was held in 1942.After WW2 he became a successful commercial and popular painter specialising in industrial subjects and machinery (particularly railways),portraits of eminent sitters (including the Queen - he was appointed as official artist for the Coronation of Elizabeth II,which was to bring his name before the public,worldwide,also Field Marshal Montgomery,and Edward Heath) and the fantasy genre (often featuring anthropomorphised mice).
From 1954 his works included a small mouse,sometimes lifelike,sometimes cartoonish.These became his trademark after 1956.They can be difficult to detect,and many people enjoy scouring his paintings to find one.Even some of his portraits of the famous contain a mouse.
He contributed illustrations to periodicals and magazines such as: The ILN,The Champion Annual,The Oxford Annual, The Boys' Own Paper,Chums,Picture Post,The Strand,The Windsor Magazine,and The Wide World Magazine amogst several others.
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