1928 (published)
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Colour line block printed book jacket for 'Cannon Law', mounted on black card. Signed by the artist and inscribed in ink in another hand on the back with the artist's and publisher's names.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Colour line block |
| Brief description | Book jacket design by Kenneth Romney Towndrow for an edition of 'Cannon Law' by T. C. Paynter, published London, 1928. |
| Physical description | Colour line block printed book jacket for 'Cannon Law', mounted on black card. Signed by the artist and inscribed in ink in another hand on the back with the artist's and publisher's names. |
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| Bibliographic reference | The plot description on the jacket cover is as follows:
'"Szandria, a small Caucasian kingdom, is ruled by a half English girl Queen. The country is faced with trouble in its mining area, fomented by Bolshevik agents and complicated by the scheming of Selby Hankinson, American financier. Anthony de Falbec, a pretender to the throne, allows himself to be used as a figure head by the revolutionary party, only to realize his folly at the 11th hour. Szandria refuses to place herself under Soviet Russia and is overwhelmed in scenes of bloodshed and violence in spite of heroic resistance of her little army". |
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| Accession number | E.655-1982 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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