Nicolas Bentley was a man of many parts--publisher, circus clown, film extra, novelist, mimic, journalist, fireman, poet, ad man, and commercial artist. The godson of G.K. Chesterton, he became one of Britain's best-loved humorous cartoonists and caricaturists. Among the seventy-odd books that still carry the immortal by-line "Nicolas Bentley Drew the Pictures" are works by Hilaire Belloc, Damon Runyon, Lawrence Durrell, Kingsley Amis, and most famously, T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Here, assembled ...
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Nicolas Bentley was a man of many parts--publisher, circus clown, film extra, novelist, mimic, journalist, fireman, poet, ad man, and commercial artist. The godson of G.K. Chesterton, he became one of Britain's best-loved humorous cartoonists and caricaturists. Among the seventy-odd books that still carry the immortal by-line "Nicolas Bentley Drew the Pictures" are works by Hilaire Belloc, Damon Runyon, Lawrence Durrell, Kingsley Amis, and most famously, T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Here, assembled for the first time in one volume, are nearly 200 of his finest joke drawings.
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Very Good. Nicolas Bentley cartooned for among others the "Daily Mail", "Sunday Times" and "Private Eye" illustrating "Auberon Waugh's Diary". "The Prion Cartoon Classic s" are an on-going series show-casing the finest and funniest comic cartoonists of the 20th century from Britain, Europe and the USA. Series: Prion Cartoon Classics S. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: WHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 165 x 18. Weight in Grams: 369. 2003. Hardcover.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
