[Illustrations for Faust]. Vulliamy (Colwyn Edward) Modern Illustrated

20 pen-and-ink illustrations with brown wash for Faust, 22 further sketches in ink and pencil, pp. [69], oblong, 23.5 x 33cm, quarter brown diced calf with green morocco boards, rebacked, original pen/pencil holder at top edge, elasticated tie, a few faint marks and abrasions, very good. Colwyn Edward Vulliamy was born in 1886, in Radnorshire, Wales; prior to his War service he studied art under Stanhope Forbes at Newlyn, Cornwall, but later established himself as a biographer and novelist - including detective fiction, sometimes under the name 'Anthony Rolls'. This sketchbook is a product of that early education. The series of illustrations for Faust (unpublished), which occupy the first half, are highly atmospheric, the dense cross-hatching adding to the sense of supernatural control in, for example, the signing of the contract or the hunched 'rat gnawing the pentagram', in contrast to the wild scenes of exorcism and galloping demon horses. Subjects in the second half include a haunting 'Spectre', Ophelia, studies after Titian and classical statuary, Tenby harbour and ships at sea. Vulliamy married Eileen Muriel Hynes, whom he had met in Cornwall whilst pursuing his artistic career - she was the elder sister of the artist Gladys Hynes, who also studied at Newlyn. As father to the architect John Sebastian Papendiek Vulliamy, he became the father-in-law of Shirley Hughes, author and illustrator of works for children (whose daughter, Clara Vulliamy, shares that profession). [With:] postcard dated 1951 from C.E.V. to J.S.P Vulliamy concerning lunch.