The Last of Uptake (Illustrated by Rex Whistler) (1942)

SIMON HARCOURT-SMITH has written an architectural fantasy around a great Palladian mansion, and the extravagances and conceits of its lay-out and garden. REX WHISTLER has designed the book, and has illustrated it, as no one else could illustrate it, with over twenty pen-and-wash drawings in monochrome and colour, that depict Uptake, and its extraordinary inhabitants, in all their fantastic and sombre splendour. This beautiful volume will, we believe, be especially welcome to bookmen in these arid days of war, published as it is at a price well in keeping with war-time incomes.Condition: Red cloth boards bowed and lightly edgeworn. Dust-wrapper a little edge-worn with some spotting and toning to rear panel.