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WHITE, COLIN: : THE ENCHANTED WORLD OF JESSIE M. KING

SCOTLAND,EDINBURGH.CANONGATE PUBLISHING LTD.,1989.

ISBN 0862412358.

UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/NFINE. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, colour pictorial artwork by Jessie M. King,to upper panel of dw/dj,subject's (J. M. King) sepia portrait photographic illustrated rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners.Some superficial,minor,minimal scoring/indents to rear panel,whilst the front,upper panel is slightly more heavily impressed/indented,but without affecting the bds beneath - noticeable only under bright light and close inspection.A small 3/5ths" closed tear to front's,top spine/ backstrip's gutter edge,and a barely perceptible,tiny snick to the rear,lower edge's corner with some minimal creasing and laminate wrinkling.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread? Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original, plain pale grey cloth bds with bright, crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain,slightly darker grey eps.Described hard,but fairly and honestly,nowhere as bad as it reads or sounds.UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-xiipp+1-164pp [paginated] includes list of illustrations (176),author's intro,14 chapters and an epilogue,profuse contemporary b/w+colour illustrations and photographs interspersed throughout the text and the book,a 2pp chronology,an 8pp checklist of books illustrated by Jessie M. King and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title with full-page,full-colour frntis illustration by J. M. King to recto,title page,a contents list/table with a water-colour illustration by subject (J. M. King) to recto. Jessie M. King was an illustrator of dreams.She created a world in which both fantasy and reality blended together to delight and arrest the mind.She drew slender knights and princesses,fairies and nymphs.She dressed them in gowns of the finest linen and armour of burnished silver in fashions borrowed from the Middle Ages that had inspired the pre-Raphaelites,from the far east that had inspired the Aestetic movement and from the lands of Mists and Fairies that had inspired the Celtic revival. Her book bindings and illustrations were in high demand from publishers in Britain and on the Continent.Her fabric and jewellery designs were commissioned by Liberty's and widely exhibited.Her experiments with the batik process brought brilliant new concepts of colour to her many outstanding landscapes and to the large number of ceramic works she decorated. The book presents a survey of her childhood in a Scottish manse,her years in the exciting world of Glasgow Art Nouveau around the turn of the 20th C,of her marriage to the painter Ernest Archibald Taylor and their life in Paris at the time of the First World War,and of their new post-war world centred on their home 'The Greengate' in Kircudbright. In researching the life of this colourful artist,Colin White was granted access,by Jessie Marion King's daughter Merle Taylor,to family papers and to many of the photographs that are included in the book. 'The Enchanted World of Jessie M. King' is lavishly illustrated in both b/w+ colour.The detailed list of bibliographical information is the most comprehensive yet to appear and will be of major interest to collectors and the many followers of Jessie M. King's Art.This is the first major,authoritative and definitive book to have been published on the life and work of Jessie Marion King, one of the most important illustrators of the 20thC. She studied at the Glasgow School of Art under the great Fra Newberry and belonged to the movement that has come to be known as The Glasgow Style.The book is now out of print and increasingly hard to find,and therefore highly sought after - particularly as it is an invaluable reference source. Jessie Marion King (c.1875-1949).Married name Mrs E.A. Taylor.Usually worked as Jessie M. King.Studied at the Glasgow School of Art where she was influenced by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his circle. Visited France and Italy on a travelling scholarship and was particularly impressed by Botticelli's drawings in th Uffizi.In 1898,her work attracted the attention of 'The Studio' and became widely known through its pages.She taught book decoration at the Glasgow School of Art (1902),and in the same year won a gold medal for book design at the Turin International Exhibition of Modern Decorative Art.During the following years she worked as a muralist,designer of fabric,jewellery and costume,and as a book illustrator and book cover designer. She moved to Paris in 1911,and for the next 2 years ran the Schealing Atelier for Fine Art with her husband,artist Ernest Archibald Taylor.While in Paris,she was inspired by the Russian Ballet to experiment with colour; after her return to Scotland (1913),she took up pictorial batik,and gradually devoted less time to illustration. She eventually settled at Kircudbright. Her work,whilst bearing the imprint of the Glasgow school,was extremely individual. John Russell Taylor,who considered her work worthy of comparison with that of Aubrey Beardsley and Charles Ricketts, wrote,'the image she conjures up of pale ladies festooned in stars and attended by flights of birds,of wan haloed knights, lost in reverie and drifting through wispy landscapes of faint transfigured trees and insubstantial dream castles of the mind,is not quite like anything else in art,and once entered,never wholly escaped from.' She worked with a delicate line in pen and ink,sometimes with colour washes. Curiously,she never really overcame the problems of assimulating written titles into her pictorial designs,and her hand drawn lettering often strikes a discordant note.The foremost Scottish book designer and illustrator of the 20th century. See also,book ID's rja27627,rja27637 [Fabre,Henri J - 'The Mason Bees' + 'The Life of the Fly' respectively] as association copies with her own hand-written art nouveau stylised signature to ffe,but in her married name 'Jessie MK-Taylor.These books were purchased,together,through a part-time bookseller from/in Buittle,Castle Douglas, Kircudbrightshire,Scotland in July 1988. Since April 2013,agan in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the value and weight of this item (1.3Kg unpackaged),for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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