To War with Paper and Brush: Captain Edward Ardizzone: Official War Artist

Limited edition of 600 copies. Slipcased

This Ardizzone book is another of the major four-colour books printed out-of-house but entirely conceived, organised, designed and typeset by one person; together with the author Malcolm Yorke, whose earlier book for the Press on Edward Bawden was so successful.

Ardizzone’s Diary of a War Artist has been the only book relating to his wartime experiences in many British locations as well as on the front line in France, Belgium, Italy, North Africa, Sicily, Denmark and Germany and consists of the edited diaries which the artist kept. Fine copy in slipcase

To War with Paper and Brush traces and assesses his extraordinary wartime path, and is illustrated with a great many original watercolours, line-drawings and photographs.

In true Fleece Press style this book is beautifully made and very heavily illustrated. Printed in Sheffield by J. W. Northend on the uncoated but smooth Monadnock Dulcet paper in an edition of 600 copies (the colophon mistakenly reads 700), all copies are bound in full Record Leinen cloth with an accompanying slipcase.