Tell albert buhrer (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Limited Edition. 4to (29 x 23 cm). 61 pp. Brown paper covers with black paste-on title to upper cover, spine missing (showing mull), corners bumped. Text block tight and unmarked with browning to pages. Limited to 500 copies for Britain and 500 published in USA. He missed the boat on Churchill (pages 34/35).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Hardback. 4to. pp 61. Limited to 500 copies for Britain and 500 published in USA. Satirical cartoon / caricature of 26 subjects including the author himself ('two-faced worm, the meanest of the lot.'. ) known to be Albert Buhrer (1891 - 1991 ) little known as an illustrator (not in Horne or Houfe) who also illustrated Firbank's 'Odette: A Tale for Weary People'(1916). [1] A Caricaturist: Max Beerbohm; [2] The Last Quixote: G. K. Chesterton; [3] A Carver: Jacob Epstein; [4] A Visionary: Augustus John, A. R. A.; [5] A Premier [Stanley Baldwin] and John Bull; [6] A Turncoat: Sir Alfred Mond; [7] A Puritan: The Rt. Hon. Sir William Joynson-Hicks; [8] A Poet: John Drinkwater; [9] An Idealist: Lady Astor; [10] A Romancist: Hilaire Belloc; [11] Design For A National Memorial In The Modern Manner To The Glory Of The Sitwell Trinity [Sacheverell, Edith + Osbert]; [12] A Secretary For India: The Right Hon. Lord Birkenhead; [13] The Rt. Hon. Winston ÒColleoniÓ Churchill; [14] Ultimus Romanorum: The Rt. Hon. Lord Oxford and Asquith; [15] A Realist: Caradoc Evans; [16] Any Highbrow Critic; [17] A Painter: Sir William Orpen; [18] Two Extremists: The Duke of Northumberland and Mr. Cook; [19] An Ecclesiastic: Dean Inge; [20] An Actor: Sir Gerald Du Maurier; [21] A Philosopher: George Bernard Shaw; [22] Design For A Crest For Messrs. Gilbert Frankau and Michael Arlen; [23] The London Laureate: Thomas Burke; [24] A Novelist: Arnold Bennett; [25] A Tennis Queen: Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen; [26] Mr. Tell, The Only Begetter Of This Book Of Satires. Albert Buhrer (1891-1991), of Swiss ancestry, was born in London, England, in 1891 into an artistic family, as his father, Conrad Buhrer, was a sculptor and bronze caster and an uncle was the sculptor Alfred Gilbert. Not surprisingly, he gravitated toward art, taking evening classes and studying at the Academie Julian and Atelier Colarossi in Paris. A watercolorist himself, he became a close friend of the renowned watercolorist Sir William Russell Flint. Yet Buhrer clearly had an interest in poetry as seen with this book now being offered, which he published under his birthname, but as early as December 1921 he had also become, for reasons not found, "Adrian Bury" [see The English Review, December, 1921, where he published "Ode to the Dying World"]. By then he was freelancing as a writer and cartoonist, joining the Sunday Pictorial in 1920. By 1932 he was exhibiting, as Adrian Bury, well-received watercolors at the Leger Galleries on Old Bond Street, London, and he continued painting for the rest of his long life, but also continued to write as Adrian Bury, appearing, for example, with a piece on Frederick Leighton, P.R.A., in The New English Review, June 1946, and publishing a wide-ranging number of books well into his later years, including poetry, a biography of his uncle, Sir Alfred Gilbert, and an autobiography. Very good sound copy with some light wear to covers and occasional foxing to a few pages. Original publisher's paper coverd cream boards with title label on front and lettered at beige cloth spine in sanguine.…