Classical Landscape with Figures

2 May, 2015
Author: Osbert Lancaster
Genre: Travel
Category: Rare Books

First edition. No. 22 of 100 copies printed on handmade paper, and signed by the author. A sympathetically observed Grecian travelogue, blending observations on history ancient and contemporary with striking full-page lithographs, and brilliantly drawn vignettes. Lancaster was a wildly successful cartoonist, but here he achieves a beautiful synthesis of text and illustration, springing from his time in Greece in the aftermath of World War II. 

London: John Murray, 1947.