Barbosa - The Man who Drew Flashman (Numbered Limited Edition)

Limited Stock - Numbered Limited Edition of just 450 copies worldwide with custom dust jacket.

A lavishly illustrated biography of Arthur Barbosa, the artist who, over more than sixty years, provided dust jackets for some of the twentieth century's most famous authors of fiction, including Georgette Heyer, Doris Leslie, C. S. Forester, Patrick O'Brian, Joanna Trollope, Graham Greene, Sax Rohmer, Jules Verne, Anthony Powell, Lytton Strachey and, of course, George MacDonald Fraser, plus The Radio Times and West End Theatre productions.>br>
Born in Liverpool, he moved to London at the end of the 1920s where he became a noted and respected illustrator and commercial artist. A lifelong friend of Rex Harrison, he also numbered among his friends and acquaintances Cecil Beaton, Frederick Ashton, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.

Available in a limited edition of just 500 copies worldwide, only four hundred and fifty of which will be for sale. It will not be reprinted.

The first 50 copies (1 – 50) are numbered and signed by the author and have a specially designed slipcase and gold blocked page edges.

THIS EDITION is from the next four hundred copies (51 – 450) that are numbered and have a specially designed dust jacket.

The final fifty copies are for library and other deposits, review and private distribution.

A Book Palace Books publication.

Author: Lawrence Blackmore
Artist: Arthur Barbosa
Publisher: Book Palace Books, June 2018
Number of pages: 350
Format: Hard Cover; Full Colour illustrations
Size: 9" x 12" (220mm x 297mm)
ISBN: 9781907081439
Code: BARBOSA