Title: Andrew Marvel And His Friends:
A Story Of The Siege Of Hull.
Author: Hall, Marie (nee Sibree)
Publisher: A. Brown and Sons Ltd.,
Hull & London. Ninth edition.
Number of pages: 469
Description: A work of historical
fiction the chief scenes of which lie in the old town of Kingston-upon-Hull.
An Association Copy, being labelled on the inside front cover as
belonging to J. Walter West, the
book’s illustrator; the outside front cover bears his monogram. J. Walter West was born, in Hull, to a Quaker
family in May 1860. He became in due
course a painter, etcher, lithographer and illustrator. His first painting subjects were primarily
animals but he later turned to genre works.
After 1910 he concentrated on landscape.
He studied at York under Edwin Moore, later at St. Johns Wood Art School
(1883), and subsequently at the RA Schools (1884-7) and the Academie Julian,
Paris. He exhibited at the Royal Academy
from 1885 and at the Royal Society Of British Artists. Member of the Royal Watercolour Society
1904. He designed posters for London
Underground 1916-1931 and various designs of his can be found in the London
Transport Museum collection. Painting
exhibited in Tate Britain 1913:
Sunshine, Breeze, and Blossom: Lake Como.
Died Northwood, Middlesex, June 1933.
2nd hand book, Condition: Good. Gilding to page edges.
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