SWANWICK, Betty. Hoodwinked & Beauty and the Burglar. London: Arthur Barker. 1957-1958. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s superb pictorial cream and salmon pink/pale green illustrated cloth, in the dust jackets which match the cloth’s pattern, all designed by the author who also provides various excellent illustrations throughout both volumes. Both volumes very good, the cloth to both clean, bright and vivid, the bindings tight and square, publisher’s topstains bright, the contents fine but for mild offsetting to endpapers and faint spots to prelims. The dust jackets unclipped (10s 6d net/12s 6d net) and complete, with several small or tiny nicks, chips, rubbing and bumps to edges, corners, and spine tips, and a couple of small adhesive tape repairs to versos.
The second and third of only three novels—or novelettes—by the artist and writer. Ada ‘Betty’ Swanwick was born in 1915 and by the age of sixteen, she was enrolled at three art colleges, being commissioned for Transport for London for poster design, with whom she collaborated for two decades. She was a notable student of Edward Bawden’s and his influence can be seen here, though her style remains inimitably her own. Both novels are playfully subversive Victorian pastiches, often in which bizarre moments reshape the narrative entirely. See the illustration on Mr. Fox’s suicide in the first volume, for instance.
SWANWICK, Betty. Hoodwinked & Beauty and the Burglar. London: Arthur Barker. 1957-1958. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s superb pictorial cream and salmon pink/pale green illustrated cloth, in the dust jackets which match the cloth’s pattern, all designed by the author who also provides various excellent illustrations throughout both volumes. Both volumes very good, the cloth to both clean, bright and vivid, the bindings tight and square, publisher’s topstains bright, the contents fine but for mild offsetting to endpapers and faint spots to prelims. The dust jackets unclipped (10s 6d net/12s 6d net) and complete, with several small or tiny nicks, chips, rubbing and bumps to edges, corners, and spine tips, and a couple of small adhesive tape repairs to versos.
The second and third of only three novels—or novelettes—by the artist and writer. Ada ‘Betty’ Swanwick was born in 1915 and by the age of sixteen, she was enrolled at three art colleges, being commissioned for Transport for London for poster design, with whom she collaborated for two decades. She was a notable student of Edward Bawden’s and his influence can be seen here, though her style remains inimitably her own. Both novels are playfully subversive Victorian pastiches, often in which bizarre moments reshape the narrative entirely. See the illustration on Mr. Fox’s suicide in the first volume, for instance.
