Buy this book on-line ALDRIDGE**, ALAN: : The PEACOCK PARTY: A SEQUEL TO THE BUTTERFLY BALL and the GRASSHOPPER'S FEAST.**LONDON.JONATHAN CAPE Ltd.,1979. ISBN 0224015915.
UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj,as issued,illustrated 1st edn. NFINE. No owner inscrptn.Bright,crisp, clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial illustrated boards; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners and immaculate grey silhouetted illustrated endpapers.Slight sunning/fading to both front+rear boards' top and side edges - due to proximity of previously stored,smaller books.Publisher's bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,original colour illustrated glazed boards,a price label to rear board's lower,left-hand corner.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and clean,some minimal random spotting to some pages but no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips other than those to the last illustration occuring on its closing/folding.UK,slim Qrto HB, no dw/dj - as issued,illustrated 1st edn,28pp [unpaginated] includes colour vignetted title page,11 full-colour,full-page illustrations by both Aldridge and Harry Willock,and last illustration is a double-page fold-out, which has corner creases to both top+bottom corners and some ubiquitous but minimal foxing spots to verso.
Based on 'The Peacock 'At Home' by A Lady (1807),and a sequel to 'The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast',verses written with George E. Ryder.Written as a sequel for those not invited to the Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast.
Alan Aldridge (active from c.1967).Born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.Attended Romford Technical College but left at 15 and supported himself with an assortment of jobs including insurance clerk,repertory actor,dock hand and barrow boy.In 1963,he took a short evening course in commercial graphics.Soon,he had achieved spectacular success with designs for posters,book covers,record sleeves, car,furniture and body painting,as well as magazine and book illustration.In 1966,he was appointed art director of Penguin books,but left in 1968 to set up his own studio,Ink,which received commissions from many of the leading pop groups and glossy magazines of the day,including the Beatles' ill-fated Apple Corps.
As Aldridge's career embodied many of the aspirations of the 'swinging sixties', so his drawing epitomised the graphic idiom of the decade.His use of brilliant 'psychedelic' colours in combination with ebulliently decorative draughtsmanship gave his work the vigorous popular appeal of fairground art; but he used this apparently unsophisticated language to convey ideas of almost surrealist complexity, abounding in visual ambiguities,allusions and jokes.Stylistically his most influential innovation was his use of the airbrush for fine colour graduation and shading over much of the picture surface,giving the illusion of undulating movement within the crisp contours.As his draughtsmanship developed,he increasingly incorporated graaphic references to cultural traditions as diverse as oriental painting and pre-Columbian art,while his imagery continued to invite closer and more intense scrutiny.After disbanding Ink, Aldridge continued to work freelance,finding a regular publisher in Jonathan Cape.In 1974,he won the Children's Book of the Year Award with 'Butterfly Ball'; and latterly he has designed animated films. Died 17th February,2017.
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UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj,as issued,illustrated 1st edn.FINE.Neat,blue ink,donor inscrptn to verso of front free endpaper.Bright,crisp, clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial illustrated boards; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners and immaculate grey silhouetted illustrated endpapers,the top two corners minimally bumped.Publisher's original price printed to rear board's lower,left-hand corner.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and generally clean but some minimal,random foxing to some pages.Light, slight,sporadic foxing to both sides of title page and the first versed page,and similar light,sporadic foxing to verso of the double-page fold-out illustration at rear - else fine. UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued,illustrated 1st edn,28pp [unpaginated] includes colour vignetted title page,11 full-colour,full-page illustrations by both Aldridge and Harry Willock,and last illustration is a double-page fold-out,which has a 1/4" vertical crease to vertical page edge.
Based on 'The Peacock 'At Home' by A Lady (1807),and a sequel to 'The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast',verses written with George E. Ryder.Wriiten as a sequel,for those not invited to the Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast.
Alan Aldridge (active from c.1967).Born in Aylesbury,Buckinghamshire.Attended Romford Technical College but left at 15 and supported himself with an assortment of jobs including insurance clerk, repertory actor,dock hand and barrow boy. In 1963,he took a short evening course in commercial graphics.Soon,he had achieved spectacular success with designs for posters,book covers,record sleeves,car, furniture and body painting,as well as magazine and book illustration.In 1966,he was appointed art director of Penguin books,but left in 1968 to set up his own studio,Ink,which received commissions from many of the leading pop groups and glossy magazines of the day,including the Beatles' ill-fated Apple Corps.
As Aldridge's career embodied many of the aspirations of the 'swinging sixties',so his drawing epitomised the graphic idiom of the decade.His use of brilliant 'psychedelic' colours in combination with ebulliently decorative draughtsmanship gave his work the vigorous popular appeal of fairground art; but he used this apparently unsophisticated language to convey ideas of almost surrealist complexity, abounding in visual ambiguities,allusions and jokes.Stylistically his most influential innovation was his use of the airbrush for fine colour graduation and shading over much of the picture surface,giving the illusion of undulating movement within the crisp contours.As his draughtsmanship developed,he increasingly incorporated graaphic references to cultural traditions as diverse as oriental painting and pre-Columbian art,while his imagery continued to invite closer and more intense scrutiny.After disbanding Ink, Aldridge continued to work freelance, finding a regular publisher in Jonathan Cape.In 1974,he won the Children's Book of the Year Award with 'Butterfly Ball'; lkatterly he had designed animated films.Died 17th February,2017.
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