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BELLOC, Hilaire ("H.B.") | BLACKWOOD, Basil Temple ("B.T.B.") SKU: 17453 Barcode:
Stock No. 17453
Authors: Hilaire, BELLOC ("H.B.") | Basil Temple, BLACKWOOD ("B.T.B.")
London: Edward Arnold 1897
Association copy. First Edition. Oblong 4to (11 x 8.5 ins); pp 48. Every page illustrated. Pictorial paper-covered boards with cloth spine, slight edgewear and light rubbing to upper board. Still, an exceptionally nice copy with a captivating inscription by the Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, "from the proud father of the illustrator". Basil Temple Blackwood was the son of the 1st Marquis of Dufferin and Ava. He was an army office in the first World War as well as being as lawyer, civil servant, and book illustrator. He was killed in action in 1917, Whilst at Oxford, he became friends with Hilaire Belloc. Later, in 1896, Belloc approached Blackwood to illustrate his book of humorous children's verse, 'The Bad Child's Book of Beasts'. Blackwood's amusing pen and ink sketches were in a style which has been described as 'German Expressionism' and were credited only to 'B.T.B'. Blackwood went on to illustrate several more of Belloc's books.
