Complete Work by Eric Ravilious (9 results)

Condition: Near fine, bright copy. Landscape format unbound (as published) pamphlet. 6 pages including one colour illustration, 'Dangerous Work at Low Tide'. Note: this is prospectus not the actual book. One tiny speak of a mark to the front else very clean and neat. Colour illustration is bright. Near fine, bright copy. …

25 x 32cm 284pp very good hardback with mid-blue cloth boards, the word Ravilious emblazoned on the front in red and white. Has a foreword by Brian Sewell and contributions from Barry and Saria Viney, Christopher Whittick and Simon Lawrence. Colour plus black and white reproductions throughout. Eric William Ravilious was a British painter, designer, book illustrator and wood-engraver. He grew up in Sussex, and is particularly known for his watercolours of the South Downs, Castle Hedingham and other English landscapes, which examine English landscape and vernacular art with an off-kilter, modernist sensibility and clarity. He served as a war artist, and was the first British war artist to die on active service in World War II when the aircraft he was in was lost off Iceland.…

Landscape 4to. Limited edition. One of seven hundred and fifty copies. Original blue cloth, gilt, with a printed label to the upper board. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. A few very small marks on the back board, otherwise a fine copy. 'Over a short period of thirty-six months of the war, until he was tragically lost in Iceland during September 1942, Ravilious made well over a hundred watercolour paintings of British military subjects, with a number of fine lithographs of submarine interiors.' The artwork is beautifully reproduced and is accompanied by over 280 personal letters, diary excerpts and official memos. A lovely copy of a definitive work.…

Landscape 4to. Limited edition. One of seven hundred and fifty copies. Original blue cloth, gilt, with a printed label to the upper board. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. A tiny mark at the foot of the spine and some very light dust-soiling. Loosely inserted is the original prospectus, a note about the change of address of The Fleece Press and, on the reverse of a spare label (as used on the front board), Christmas wishes from Simon Lawrence. Near fine. 'Over a short period of thirty-six months of the war, until he was tragically lost in Iceland during September 1942, Ravilious made well over a hundred watercolour paintings of British military subjects, with a number of fine lithographs of submarine interiors.' The artwork is beautifully reproduced and is accompanied by over 280 personal letters, diary excerpts and official memos. A lovely copy of a definitive work. From the library of John Commander (1927-2021), designer, lithographer and publisher.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 283, [2] pp., illustrated, oblong folio (9.75 x 12 in.), pale blue cloth, gilt spine title, printed label plate-sunk on upper cover. Edited by Ravilious's daughter, Anne Ullmann. With all of Ravilious's 110 wartime watercolors (including ships, planes, and coastal defenses) that he executed as an Official War Artist. Also included are texts of much of his correspondence from the last three years of his life. One of 750 copies. A fine and fresh copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Condition: As New. Slip case condition: As New. Limited edition of 750 unnumbered copies, with 100 not for sale. Many full-page fine illustrations of the artist's watercolours and copies of almost all of his letters with artist friends such as John Piper and family and friends. Spotless and unmarked 285-page book in full blue-grey cloth with a printed label on the upper board, and spotless slipcase in red cloth. Perfect condition book and slipcase (see images). Eric Ravilious (illustrator).…

Upper Denby, The Fleece Press, 2002, 283,(2) pag., richly illustrated with reproductions of Ravilioous war drawings and sketches, printed in 750 copies, original blue cloth, title in silver on spine, printed label to the frontcover, oblong quarto (fine copy). = The definitive account of Eric Ravilious's work as an Official War Artist during the final three years of his life. Between 1939 and 1942 he produced some 110 watercolours depicting British military subjects, including aircraft, ships, submarines, coastal defences and military installations, as well as a number of fine lithographs. The beautifully produced volume reproduces the complete series of wartime watercolours together with other work from the period, and includes over 280 letters, diary extracts and official memoranda, many previously unpublished. Edited by Anne Ullmann, Ravilious's daughter, the book provides an unusually intimate portrait of the artist's final years. Ravilious was tragically killed in September 1942 when his aircraft disappeared off the coast of Iceland during a search-and-rescue mission. Ravilious at War rapidly went out of print and has become the standard reference for this crucial period of his career. A lovely copy of this important and highly sought-after Fleece Press publication.…

Limited edition, one of 750 copies, oblong 4to, 300 pp. 200 illustrations, including 150 colour plates. Gilt titled light blue cloth with a paper label to upper cover, a fine copy in a bespoke patterned paper covered card slipcase.

ONE OF 750 COPIES printed in double-column, 170 plates, mainly of Ravilious' work during the period indicated, the great majority colourprinted, together with reproductions of photographs and drawings, pp. 285, oblong folio, original pale blue cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, printed label inlaid to front cover, boards bowing ever so slightly, original prospectus laid in, near fine.…