Marrin's Bookshop

Item Description

4to. 9.5 x 8 inches. 103 + [1] pp. Bound in original pink cloth with red titles and block on front board, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper. Illustrated by 48 colour plates numbered in text and by black and white text figures, including whole page and by facsimile. decorated by vignette and publisher's device on title page. Account of the life and work of Scottie Wilson (1888-1972), Scottish artist and Royal Worcester porcelain designer, known for his highly detailed work, sometimes labelled an outsider, a surrealist and creator of primitive or naive art. By George Melly (1926-2007), blues singer and jazz player, author and patron of the arts, who first encountered the artist in the 1940s.