Hawkes, Jacquetta (1910-1996)

Early Britain [Britain in Pictures Series #92]

London: Collins, 1946. Hardcover with Dust Jacket.

Publisher's original jade green and creamy white paper covered boards. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. The dust jacket with modest wear and rubbed along the spine edges.48 pages; 9 inches tall;  8 colored plates and 26 monochrome illustrations in the text.

‘Britain in Pictures’ (BIP), published by Collins, was a series of books appearing between 1941 and 1950 as a significant contribution to wartime propaganda.

The blurb on the first dust-jackets declared ‘The English have never been good at describing themselves or their ways, either for their own benefit or the benefit of others’. Designed to boost morale at home, and to represent Britain winningly to potential supporters in the USA and elsewhere, the books set out to record the British way of life, and Britain’s contribution to arts and science.

Item #18134

Price: $14.95