Edward Ardizzone: A Bibliographic Commentary
- Artist: Edward Ardizzone
- Published: 2003
- Publisher: British Library, London
- Edition: -
- Format: Hardback
- Height: 24cm
- Pages: 292
- Illustrations: Includes 4 colour and 70 black and white illustrations
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When Edward Ardizzone died in 1979 he was one of the best-loved artists (and authors) in the English-speaking world. He illustrated more than 200 books and pamphlets, a good number of which he also wrote, as well as designing dust-jackets and ephemera for a range of patrons.
Brian Alderson first published a checklist of his work in The Private Library in 1972. Since then, with the co-operation of the artist and his family, he has extended and expanded the coverage of the original list, describing for the first time in a full-scale bibliography Ardizzone's books, dust-jackets, commercial work and ephemera, with notes on his periodical contributions, war art, prints, posters and bookplates. Appendices reprint articles by Ardizzone himself, detail the history of two favourite titles - Peacock Pie and Peter Pan - and reproduce Gabriel White's memorial tribute to the artist.

