HAROLD
JONES (1904 - 1993)
For a long
and sustained period after 1945, Harold Jones' books looked unique in the
marketplace. He had a highly characteristic use of colour and line, refusing
the easy option and visual cliche for charged characterisation and a most
unusual sense of composition. On the Narrative course, George Hardie,
John Lord and I had the ambition to call and pay our most sincere respects
to him as he lived and farmed locally, we were told. As with so many
ambitions, it never happened but this site is a sort of equivalent. I
attach a few representative scans from Noah and the Ark, and my favourite
book, The Enchanted Night, Faber, 1947
01 jacket
design for The Silent Playmate , a book about dolls,
London 1979
02 endpapers
from The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley, London, 1961,
03 The Alphabet
Rhyme from Lavender's Blue , compiled by Kathleen Lines
and pictured by Harold Jones OUP Oxford 1954.
04 from
There and Back Again, written and illustrated by Harold
Jones, OUP Oxford 1977
05 dustjacket
from Mystery Manor London 1937 (1941) .
06 from Pied Piper of Hamlyn , London 1962
07 the endpapers
for M.E.Atkinson's Mystery Manor, London 1937 (1941)
08, 09,
10, 11 VIGNETTES from Lavender's Blue, and from K.Lines
A Ring of Tales published London 1958
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MY COLLECTION
The Silent Playmate , selected pages
The Enchanted Night 1947 complete
Tales to Tell, selected pages
Noah
and the Ark, a selection of pages
The Enchanted Night, a selection of pages
Bless this Day, a selection of pages
This Year Next Year jacket 1937
The
Forest Peep Show cover 1981
August
Adventure jacket 1936
Out
of the Silent Planet, jacket 1938
Lavender Blue 1954, a selection
Jack and the Beanstalk, a selection
The Pied Piper 1976 , a selection
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