Nicolas Bentley

By Richard Ingrams and Nicolas Bentley

Nicolas Bentley was a man of many parts--publisher, circus clown, film extra, novelist, mimic, journalist, fireman, poet, ad man, and commercial artist. The godson of G.K. Chesterton, he became one of Britain's best-loved humorous cartoonists and caricaturists. Among the seventy-odd books that still carry the immortal by-line "Nicolas Bentley Drew the Pictures" are works by Hilaire Belloc, Damon Runyon, Lawrence Durrell, Kingsley Amis, and most famously, T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Here, assembled for the first time in one volume, are nearly 200 of his finest joke drawings.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853754595
• ISBN13: 9781853754593
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Prion
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 6.6"

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Publisher, Clown, Film Extra, Journalist and Commercial Artist

From Back Cover: Nicolas Bentley (1907-1978) was a man of many parts - publisher, circus clown, film extra, novelist, mimic, journalist, fireman, poet ad man, and commercial artist. The son of E. C. Bentley, inventor of the clerihew and godson of G.K. Chesterton, he became one of the best-loved humorous cartoonists and caricaturists. Among the 70-odd books which still carry the immortal byline "Nicholas Bentley Drew the Pictures" are works by George Mikes, Hilaire Belloc, JB Morton, Damon Runyon, Lawrence Durrell, Kingsley Amis and most famously TS Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, on which Andrew Lloyd-Webber's musical Cats is based. Here, assembled for the first time in one volume, are nearly 200 of his finest joke drawings.