{"id":3515,"date":"2008-09-16T01:06:17","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T00:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/09\/16\/ronald-searle-book-covers\/"},"modified":"2008-09-17T01:20:10","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T00:20:10","slug":"ronald-searle-book-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/09\/16\/ronald-searle-book-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronald Searle book covers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"searle.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Lilliput issue no. 150, December 1949.<\/em><\/p>\n

A nice selection of Ronald Searle book covers and illustrations turns up at Caustic Cover Critic<\/a>. The Lilliput<\/em> cover above isn’t among them, I just happened to have it lying around as a result of putting together a new edition<\/a> of Maurice Richardson’s The Exploits of Engelbrecht<\/em><\/a> earlier this year. That volume is still in a holding pattern at Savoy Books but plans are afoot to see it published in the next few months. Searle produced a number of illustrations for the Engelbrecht stories, of course, although not for this particular issue.<\/p>\n

Lilliput<\/em> #150 featured Richardson’s story Engelbrecht and the Mechanical Brain<\/em> as well as a St Trinian’s Christmas story by Searle and Arthur Marshall, hence the cover. It’s good to see some of the original covers for the Molesworth books on the CCC page. Geoffrey Willans’ Nigel Molesworth<\/a> was the delinquent male equivalent of the St Trinian’s schoolgirls and I read all the books when they were reprinted in the early Seventies.<\/p>\n

Via Coudal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 The book covers archive<\/a>
\n\u2022 The illustrators archive<\/a><\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Engelbrecht again<\/a>
\n\u2022 Mervyn Peake in Lilliput<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lilliput issue no. 150, December 1949. A nice selection of Ronald Searle book covers and illustrations turns up at Caustic Cover Critic. The Lilliput cover above isn’t among them, I just happened to have it lying around as a result of putting together a new edition of Maurice Richardson’s The Exploits of Engelbrecht earlier this … Continue reading “Ronald Searle book covers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,48,43,23],"tags":[1231,79,1077,151],"class_list":["post-3515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-illustrators","category-magazines","category-work","tag-maurice-richardson","tag-mervyn-peake","tag-ronald-searle","tag-savoy-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-UH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}