Hall's remains on the ground floor offering an exceptional range of quality used books.Īdrian Harrington Rare Books deal in a wide selection of literature, modern first editions, leather bound library sets, children's and illustrated books and fine and rare antiquarian and old books in all fields. He moved to Kensington Church Street in 1997, and in 2014 Adrian relocated to the historic Hall's Bookshop in Royal Tunbridge Wells, occupying the first floor of this iconic building near The Pantiles area of the town. See below our stock of Cicely Mary Barker First Editions, fine bindings, and signed copies.Īdrian Harrington began trading in 1971, as part of Harrington Brothers in the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's fashionable King's Road. It wasn't until 1985 that a winter collection was assembled from her remaining work and was published posthumously, culminating in her successful reputation in the following century. Edmund's Church, Pitlake.īarker was proficient in watercolour, pen and ink, oils, and pastels. Kate Greenaway and the Pre-Raphaelites were the principal influences on her work, although she claimed to paint instinctively, and rejected artistic theories.
She also designed a stained glass window for St.
Indeed, she produced a few Christian-themed books (such as The Children’s Book of Hymns and, in collaboration with her sister Dorothy, He Leadeth Me). Similar books were published in the following decades. Barker was a devout Anglican, and donated her artworks to Christian fundraisers and missionary organizations.
Her earliest professional work included greeting cards and juvenile magazine illustrations, and her first book, Flower Fairies of the Spring, was published in 1923. Barker's art education began in girlhood with correspondence courses and instruction at the Croydon School of Art. Cicely Mary Barker | First Editions 1895 - 1973Ĭicely Mary Barker (28 June 1895 – 16 February 1973) was an English illustrator best known for a series of fantasy illustrations, depicting fairies and flowers.
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