{"id":7280,"date":"2019-05-27T05:26:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T05:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=7280"},"modified":"2019-05-27T05:26:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T05:26:32","slug":"walpole-forester-proof-copy-and-paul-davies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2019\/05\/27\/walpole-forester-proof-copy-and-paul-davies\/","title":{"rendered":"Walpole\/Forester, Proof Copy and Paul Davies."},"content":{"rendered":"

Just checking dates of births and deaths and this weeks is a bit contrived. Sir Hugh Walpole, a very good friend of Alan and Josephine Bott, died on the 1st June 1941 and is quoted on the back of ‘Death to The French’ by C S Forester (Cecil Scott Forester the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith) <\/span>I have found three Forester covers in the same style from around 1975\/6 but only one is credited to David Tayler. Click HERE<\/span><\/strong><\/a> to see them and also the quote.<\/span><\/p>\n

While we were down in Basingstoke, Alysoun Sanders the archivist, showed us a very interesting book, a proof copy of ‘Scenes of London Life’<\/span><\/span><\/strong> <\/a>which she found in the PAN library and quickly moved to the archives. I don’t suppose there are many of those around, probably as scare as X705 which I may have mentioned before and which is top of my wants list, now just above a proof copy of ‘Scenes’<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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A while ago I met up with Paul Davies<\/strong><\/span><\/a> in Cheltenham and last week came across another of his covers, this time for a title in the PAN Information series namely  ‘Taking Off’<\/strong><\/span><\/a> I think I mentioned previously that the Leslie Thomas covers he drew were not amongst his favourites so I asked him about this one to which he replied “Yes! One of mine. Not as bad as some!!! I’m very happy with retirement and my drawing has improved a tad”<\/span> and then in a later email he added “Just a quick note to say how much I am enjoying reading the site and the blog”<\/span> which is a bit worrying as that is now at least three people who say they read it including Alysoun as above!<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just checking dates of births and deaths and this weeks is a bit contrived. Sir Hugh Walpole, a very good friend of Alan and Josephine Bott, died on the 1st June 1941 and is quoted on the back of ‘Death to The French’ by C S Forester (Cecil Scott Forester the pen name of Cecil […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}