A Bit of Nonsense
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This issue’s cover illustration is from Simon Bartram’s Up for the Cup! due to be published in September. Simon Bartram is interviewed by Martin Salisbury. Thanks to Templar Publishing for their help with this May cover.
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A Bit of Nonsense
Colours by Rob Smith
I hope Lear would be pleased at the pretty presentation that some of his best-known verses and limericks have received from Summersdale. Colour does not always suit his emphatic line drawings but Rob Smith’s pale tints, laid on slightly haphazard, are exactly what are required (contrast the vulgar splodges in a recent fancy Folio Society edition) and the book’s small square format is also well-chosen. The joyous concluding drawings should though be given their proper lordly title of ‘The Heraldic Blazons of Foss the Cat’. BA
