ARDIZZONE EDWARD — Indian Diary 1952-1953

Thd Bodley Head, London. 1984, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0370305256) Hardcover with dust jacket, 26cm. Ill.: Edward Ardizzone. Book, In 1952 Edward Ardizzone was invited by UNESCO to go to India to take part in their Seminar for the Procduction of Audio-Visual Aids for Fundamental Education. He was a member of a four man team that spent three months in Delhi and three in Bombay from early November 1952 to the end of May 1953. Edward Ardizzone kept a diary of his visit, the written entries fully and freely augmented by sketches in pencil and ink and occasionally water colour and pastel. While in India he did a drawing for Punch, one of several he did for the magazine at the time of Malcolm Muggeridge's editorship. Muggeridge, who himself spent two periods in India, has written a forword to introduce this illustrated diary. Very Good/Very Good in Protective Cover.