Still scanning Walpole covers so here are the later ‘Herries Chronicles’ from 1977. They have photo covers without a credit that I can see and part of the photos were used on the two volumes from 1985
This week’s random pick off the shelf is ‘The PAN Book of Limericks’ of which there were four editions from 1963 and 1967. The line drawings on the covers and inside are by Richard Taylor who was born in Fort William, Ontario in 1902 and best known for his cartoons in magazines where he signed his work R.Taylor. The ‘New Yorker’ and ‘Playboy’ publishing his work after he moved to the United States, where there were more opportunities and better pay for cartoonists. He married Maxine MacTavish in Toronto, Ontario and they had no children. Taylor died in Bethel, Connecticut in 1970. PAN also published ‘A Little Treasury of Limericks Fair and Foul’ and ‘The Blue Peter Book of Limericks’
I’ve recently been in communication with Gwilym Lloyd, an actor and fellow appreciator of book cover art, who also produces calendars featuring themed book covers at Paprika Print. The two I like for 2026 are for Val Biro and George Simeon but Gwilym is hoping to produce some future ones centred around PAN artists such as Sam ‘PEFF’ Peffer, Pat Owen and Hans Helweg. I’m happy to help with hi res scans once copyright has been sorted so watch this space.