Horace J. Knowles: Beyond Fairyland

Among The Innocents KNOWLES, Horace J; LATHAM, Austin Also commissioned by Methuen was a watercolour to be used as the fron- tispiece for a collection of Austin Latham’s poems for children titled Among The Innocents . The watercolour, of which a preparatory version survives in his archive and is pictured opposite, illustrates the fairy poem ‘A Mother’s Rapture’ 18. Original Preparatory Watercolour 1920. Original preparatory watercolour on card. 38cm x 27cm. Signed and dated by Knowles to the lower right hand corner. Knowles’s pencilled in- structions to the printers in the margins. Additionally Knowles’s name and address pencilled in to the lower margin. Title of the piece in ink by Know- les. [32953]

17. Among The Innocents Methuen, 1920 . First edition. Navy blue cloth with lettering and decoration to the spine and upper board in gilt. Colour frontispiece by Horace J. Knowles. A near fine copy. [37792]

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