Today I worked well - the picture fell off the brush : the artistry of Leslie Cole ; with a note on the interesting life of Brenda Cole / told for the first time by Malcolm Yorke
198 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 x 28 cm.
General Note
"500 hundred copies were printed in February 2010 by Northend Creative Print Solutions before being bound in quarter cloth and marbled paper by Louise Brockman, at the Fine Book Bindery in Wellingborough. The type, Miller Display, was set and the book designed by Simon Lawrence, who also acts as publisher"--Colophon.
`Conceived, designed, typeset & published by Simon Lawrence at his Fleece Press, 95 Denby Lane, Upper Denby, Huddersfield, HD8 8TZ.’ [verso of title page].
Contents
Acknowledgments -- Swindon, art college, a notorious trial and a wife -- Hull, the home front and Gibraltar -- Malta, letters home, a naval attack, Sicily, and an epiphany -- Flying bombs, Normandy and Cairo -- Greece, coping with atrocities and an orphanage -- More atrocities in Belsen death camp -- Colombo, Calcutta, Singapore, Rangoon, Palembong and the jungle -- The Japanese surrender, in Changi Gaol, a holiday, and an artist dies -- Borneo, illness, war trials and home again -- A war artist without a war -- Appendix 1 : Visiting the Coles / by Lucette de la Fougere -- Appendix 2 : Who was Brenda Cole? / by Julian Moore and Christopher Whittick -- Extra plates.
Binding Note
Bound in quarter blue cloth and blue marbled paper. Lilac spine label titled in black: `Leslie Cole'