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The Complete Karl the Viking by Don Lawrence Available exclusively from www.bookpalace.com illustrators Quarterly Available exclusively from www.bookpalace.com Book Palace Books’ Best of British Issue 30 Issue 29 Issue 28 Issue 27 Issue 26 Issue 25 Issue 24 Issue 23 Issue 22 Issue 21 Issue 20 Issue 19 Issue 18 Issue 17 Issue 16 Issue 15 Issue 14 Issue13 Issue 12 Issue 11 Issue 10 Issue 9 Issue8 Issue 7 Issue 6 Issue 5 Issue 4 Issue 3 Issue 2 Issue 1 BOOK PALACE BOOKS THECOMPLETEADVENTURESOFTHETHREEMUSKETEEERS £20 The Three Musketeers Heros the Spartan Leather limited edition Frank Bellamy’s Robin Hood Frank Bellamy’s King Arthur Born inNaples in1881,FortuninoMatania trained athis father’s studio and illustratedhisfirstbook at the age of14.He studied inParis,Milan andLondon,whereheworkedon TheGraphic .He returned to Italy at the age of22 formilitary service in theBersaglieri.He returned toLondonwherehe joined the staffof TheSphere .With theoutbreakofWorldWar1hebecame awar artist and spentnearlyfiveyears at the frontdrawinghundreds of sketches.Hisworkwas admiredbymilitary experts and critics alike forhis technical accomplishment and scrupulous accuracy.Hiswar art features invirtually everyhistoryor encyclopaediaofWW1 everproduced. At the endofWorldWar1Matania illustratednumerous ceremonies inLondon, including the coronationof EdwardVII.During thefirsthalfof the20th centuryhe literally illustratedhistory as ithappened.Hewasmade a Chevalierof theCrownof Italy, and exhibited regularly at theRoyalAcademy andTheRoyal InstituteofArt. Inhis studiohemaintained an enormous collectionof artefacts to aidhim inhiswork.He rarelymade preliminary sketches,preferring tobegin an elaborate illustrationwithoutpreviouspreparation. Itwas as ifhehad a exactmentalphotographof the artbeforehebegan topaintordraw.His reputationwas such thathewasvisited inhis studio inLondonbyAnnigoni,RussellFlint, and JohnSingerSargent, andhiswork is collected and admired bymanyof today’sgreatest artists and illustrators. Hewas an expert athistorical scenes from allperiodsofhistory andhisAncientRoman and classical illustrations areparticularly admired and collected.DuringWorldWar2,manyofhispaintings anddrawingswere destroyedwhenhis studiowasbombed in theBlitz.Hewas soprolific thatmany examplesofhis art still survive. Hispictureswerepublished everyweek in Illustrazione Italiana from1895–1902, in TheGraphic from1901– 1904, and in TheSphere from1904–1963.He also contributed regularly to Britannia&Eve , and ThePassingShow . Hisworkhasbeenused innumerousmagazines andbooks such as LookandLearn , LondonLife andmanyothers. Hedied in1963. Manyyears in themaking, thisbook containsover750 imagesof this superlative artist’swork scanned from original artwork,old and raremagazines andbooks and50yearoldglassnegatives! GoMarryTheDandyHunMrJubenkaDeathtotheFrenchTheCamberwellMiracleThe ArtificialSilkGirl FaintHarmonyMaze The Trail of FuManchu JonathanBishop The Autobiography ofCornelisBlakeBlindAlley InfidelityWine in theKitchenVictorian Family Robinson Comboman The Bat Flies Low TheWind ofMorning Baker Street StudiesThereGoes theQueenOneHouseDividedTroubleon theFrontierNoQuarter GivenTheMysteryof theTailor’sDummyMingYellowHoney in theHornGreenLight The SilverMirror Patriotic Lady TheWish Child So Red the Rose Linda Eclipse On With the New Hero of the Restoration Bernadotte Star Turn TheMachine Stops I am the FoxSweetRacketPig andPepperMud andStarsUpon ThisRock The Last Plague of Egypt TheOldMan’sComingAGun for Sale SowingMoon The Standard The Story of the Hundred Days The Rocket Studs Lonigan Fair Company Royal Progress1837-1937TheThirdHourBoadiceaMacaroniDeath isNoSportsmanOn BorrowedTimeTheShadowof theHawkAComedyofErosWhat’sBecomeofWaring Swift Flows the River Bride of a Thousand Cedars Venus in Scorpio The Slitting of MrCrispe’sNoseGrand Parade TheCommodore TheCopperheadsDown the Long SlideTheStumblingStoneThe IslesofUnwisdomGoldandGaitersLet’sKillGeorge ColoradoMan in theMirror and other storiesNot by any SingleMan Perdita’s End The Plymouth Adventure The Voyage of the Mayflower The Toll-Gate The Poodle RoomBath Tangle SprigMuslin Fear is the Same April Lady Sylvester Venetia The Unknown Ajax Pistols for Two ACivilContract The EmeraldWhaler TheNonesuch TheCountess FalseColours Eighteen Fifteen LeatherArmchairs TheChevasRegal Book of London Clubs A Kind of Anger Statues in a Garden The Edwardian Age This For Caroline The Rules of the Game Queens’ Play Frederica Paragon Street Princess Vic Pope Joan The Maias The Mask of Apollo How 007 Got His Name Black Sheep Footmen in Powder The Caves of Night The Long Voyage File on a Diplomat The Sceptre and the Rose TheWaves Behind the Boat Cousin Kate The MarriageofMarthaToddFlashmanCharityGirlRoyalFlashTheRebelPrincessZara The Devil’s Lieutenant Flash for Freedom The Steel Bonnets A YoungWives’ Tale TheirsWas the Kingdom La Pedina Scambiata (These Old Shades) Dando and the SummerPalace TheDesertQueen Flashman at theCharge SevenMen ofGascony TheSultansTheYoungVictoriaAlbert’sVictoriaDesperateMeasuresSarniaCastle MalindineFlashman in theGreatGameCallBackYesterdayCheckmateACastle in Bavaria TheWidow ofWindsor TheAbandonedWoman Flashman’s LadyGlendraco Simon the Coldheart TheMaclarens Eliza Stanhope Parson Harding’s Daughter A Dagger in the Sleeve TheMating Dance Cato’sWar Flashman and the Redskins The Pyrates TheMemoirs ofCora PearlMaster andCommander PostCaptain The Far Side of theWorld The Other Side of the Hill Flashman and the Dragon HMS. SurpriseTheMauritiusCommandTheReverseof theMedalTheLeopardTalesFrom the Pump Room Flashman and theMountain of Light Flashman and the Angel of the Lord Flashman and the Tiger and finallyBarbosa Themanwho drew Flashman TheManWhoDrew Flashman by LawrenceBlackmore Lawrence Blackmore THE Modesty Blaise COMPANION EXPANDED EDITION Modesty Blaise THE COMPANION EXPANDED EDITION PeterO’Donnell’s charactermadeher international debut onMonday13thMay, 1963 ina strip story illustrated by JimHoldawayandpublished inLondon in theEveningStandard.Modestyherself did notactually appear untilStripNo.2of the storyonTuesday14thMay. Just two years later the first full lengthnovel chronicling her exploitswaspublished bySouvenirPress in Londonand simultaneously inCanada by theRyersonPress.Over the following twenty years ten furthernovelsand a volume of six short storiesappeared.A second volumeof five short storieswaspublished in 1996.The illustrated strip stories appearedmore or less continuously in the EveningStandard from1963until theywere finally brought toa closewithStripNo.10,183 on11thApril,2001, whichwas, incidentally,Peter’seighty first birthday. In the course of writingninety five full length and two short strip stories, tennovels, eleven short stories andan illustrated short story in theModestyBlaise canon,PeterO’Donnellhas createdmore than two thousandhuman characters large and small, a number of organisations,almost allof them of a criminalnature, andeven a numberof animal characters. Approximately two thirdsof these characters appear only in the strip stories,a small number crossovereither in toor from the novels and the remainderappear exclusively in the novelsand short stories. All of themappear in this book. Thisexpanded editioncontains anew introductionbyLawrenceBlackmore – “HonoraryModestyBlaise Archivist”, an indexof theModestyBlaise stripcollectionspublishedbyTitanBooks, themissingTitan stripsandapieceonModesty indifferentmedia. Modesty Blaise Fortunino Matania: Drawing from History Barbosa: The Man Who Drew Flashman Wulf the Briton Leather limited edition Modesty Blaise Companion – Expanded t ABOOK PALACEBOOK ILLUSTRATED BRITISH CLASSICS In thisvolume,we re-present twoverydifferent adaptationsof JamesFenimoreCooper’spopular adventure classic.Originally published in1826,TheLastof theMohicanshasbeen adapted countless times forfilms, television, radio and comics. Set in1757,whenFrance andGreatBritainbattled for the control ofNorthAmerica, it is the storyof the twodaughtersofColonel Munro, commanderof abeleagured fort and their journey tobe reunitedwithhim.Thegirls,Cora andAlice, are rescued from an ambushbyHawkeye, ahunter, andhis twoMohican companions, Chingachgook andhis son,Uncas.Together, they endeavour toget thegirls to safety. Thefirst adaptation in thisbookwasdrawn andpainted in full colourby renowned Italian artistRuggeroGiovannini and appeared in TellMeWhy in1968.Giovannini’s strip is “simply the finest,most authentic andmost colourful,picture strip adaptation of ‘TheLastof theMohicans’ ever to appear”. The secondversion, from LookandLearn ,wasdrawn infine and authenticdetailbyCecilDoughty andwasoriginallypublished in 1980.Using asmuch aspossibleCooper’sownwords, it canbe fairly classed asoneof themost faithfulpicture strip adaptations of the story. Althoughobviously taken from the same sourcematerial,both versionsdiffer inmoreways than just the lookof their artwork. These, and the furtherdifferenceswhen compared tovarious cinematicversions,willhopefully inspire readers to seekout and readCooper’soriginalbook. JamesFenimoreCooper’s RuggeroGiovannini CecilDoughty £19.99 ILLUSTRATED BRITISH CLASSICS JamesFenimoreCooper’s ABOOK PALACEBOOK THELASTOFTHEMOHICANS Illustratedby RuggeroGiovanniniandCecilDoughty The Last of the Mohicans King Solomon’s Mines Bumper Book of Look and Learn