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Exhibitions

Serious concerns

19 November 2016

9:00 AM

19 November 2016

9:00 AM

It’s funny, isn’t it, how a dust jacket on a book can draw you to it from the other end of a room — always supposing the illustration is by Edward Ardizzone. In fact, is there anything more suggestive of delight than a book illustrated by him? It’s the Midas touch even for unprepossessing authors.

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