Privately printed cookham (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. Virtually perfect copy from protected archive storage. Hardcover. For Stanley Spencer, Cookham was a "holy suburb of heaven". Cookham's three villages lie in a glorious bend of the Thames where heaven and history are never far away. Winter Hill was home to Stone Age man. Romans and Saxons built major works at Sashes Island. Determined villagers fought for centuries to save Cookham's priceless group of Commons. Victorians won the legal right to bathe naked at Odney Pool. Nicholas Pocock, the celebrated painter of Nelson's battles, and Gugliemo Marconi, discoverer of wireless, are linked with Cookham. Quarry Woods is the Wild Wood of Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in the Willows'. Cookham's own home-grown genius is one of England's greatest 20th century painters, Sir Stanley Spencer. Hardcover with dust jacket. Endpaper maps. Photographs and drawings. 226 pages, incl. index. Virtually perfect copy from protected archive storage. Unread.…