Author: LEIGH, HOWARD WITH A FOREWORD BY W. E. JOHNS
Title: Planes of the Great War 1914-1918
Description: London, England: John Hamilton Ltd, 1934. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and has a Poor dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and wear. The top spine ends have spots of fraying as well. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name and date on the front endpaper. Each described airplane has a tipped in black and white illustration on the opposite page. The dust jacket is laid-in and is is in several sections. " Howard Leigh was brought up in Edgbaston, close to an RAF recruitment depot. Upon leaving school in the late 1920’s, it was his brother-in-law, and ‘Biggles’ author, W E Johns who had initially encouraged Howard to make the most of his artistic skills. Beside this ‘apprenticeship’, he received no formal art training. It could be argued that this is evident in the naïveté of some of his early artwork, and his reluctance to include the human form in his illustrations! Certainly his strengths lay more in the grace, and technical accuracy of his work. For a while he worked with Johns in the “Aircraft & General Fine Art Company” which had been newly established in East Grinstead, Sussex. The output of this company included amongst others, aviation Christmas cards, playing cards, jigsaws, postcards and calendars. If any APCC readers have details of items produced by this company, I would be grateful (the only postcards I am aware of are by the artist Frank L Westley with “A&G” written vertically alongside his signature on the cards). By the early 1930’s, Leigh had established his name as an aviation artist and was beginning to contribute to aviation periodicals of the day (including the early issues of ‘Popular Flying’). During these years, he made several attempts at writing, restricting himself to aviation non-fiction, mainly historical. Most notable was his stunning book ‘Planes of the Great War 1914-1918’ (published by John Hamilton in 1934). ". Very Good in Poor dust jacket .
Keywords: Aeronautics / Astronautics Howard Leigh W. E. Johns Aviation World War I Illustration Illustrated Editions Aeronautics / Astronautics
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Title: Planes of the Great War 1914-1918
Description: London, England: John Hamilton Ltd, 1934. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and has a Poor dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and wear. The top spine ends have spots of fraying as well. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name and date on the front endpaper. Each described airplane has a tipped in black and white illustration on the opposite page. The dust jacket is laid-in and is is in several sections. " Howard Leigh was brought up in Edgbaston, close to an RAF recruitment depot. Upon leaving school in the late 1920’s, it was his brother-in-law, and ‘Biggles’ author, W E Johns who had initially encouraged Howard to make the most of his artistic skills. Beside this ‘apprenticeship’, he received no formal art training. It could be argued that this is evident in the naïveté of some of his early artwork, and his reluctance to include the human form in his illustrations! Certainly his strengths lay more in the grace, and technical accuracy of his work. For a while he worked with Johns in the “Aircraft & General Fine Art Company” which had been newly established in East Grinstead, Sussex. The output of this company included amongst others, aviation Christmas cards, playing cards, jigsaws, postcards and calendars. If any APCC readers have details of items produced by this company, I would be grateful (the only postcards I am aware of are by the artist Frank L Westley with “A&G” written vertically alongside his signature on the cards). By the early 1930’s, Leigh had established his name as an aviation artist and was beginning to contribute to aviation periodicals of the day (including the early issues of ‘Popular Flying’). During these years, he made several attempts at writing, restricting himself to aviation non-fiction, mainly historical. Most notable was his stunning book ‘Planes of the Great War 1914-1918’ (published by John Hamilton in 1934). ". Very Good in Poor dust jacket .
Keywords: Aeronautics / Astronautics Howard Leigh W. E. Johns Aviation World War I Illustration Illustrated Editions Aeronautics / Astronautics
Price: US$ 75.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 36521
- Book number: 36521
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