Ayrton, Michael. Introduction by James Laver

Paintings. By Michael Ayrton. Introduction by James Laver.

London Grey Walls Press 1948, First Edition Hardcover with Dust Jacket Small quarto, pp 17, 40 plates (includes 3 tipped-in colour plates), grey cloth with gilt spine titles and cover vignette. Very good copy in lightly chipped dust jacket with mounted colour plate (repeat of 'Temptation of St. Anthony') to both upper and lower panel. "This book contains reproductions of the paintings of Michael Ayrton from his first exhibited picture, painted in 1939 when he was aged eighteen, until those shown at his exhibition in March 1947 shortly after his twenty-sixth birthday. It is therefore a selection illustrating the early stages in the development of a painter ..."

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