Mark Haworth-Booth — E. Mcknight Kauffer: A Designer and His Public

London, The Gordon Fraser Gallery Ltd. 1979. First edition. Cloth. The first edition biography and visual study of Edward McKnight Kauffer, featuring numerous plates and in-text illustrations chronicling the designer"s life and work. In the publisher's original cloth binding, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with seventy-five images, many of which are in colour.This volume is a definitive and profusely illustrated biography, charting both the life and wide-ranging output of Edward McKnight Kauffer, celebrated poster artist, book illustrator, and theatre designer. Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890–1954) was an American graphic designer whose career flourished in the UK. Best known for designing bold, modernist posters for London Underground, he also excelled in book illustration and stage design.Written by Mark Haworth-Booth, a British academic and historian of photography who was a curator at the Victoria & Albert Museum. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, excellent, with just the slightest rubbing to extremities. dust wrapper, very smart. Slight age toning to perimeters, with very slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. One or two very slight handling marks. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean throughout. Fine . Ill.: Various. Fine/Near Fine.