MARTIN, Douglas [author] - CHARLES KEEPING, AN ILLUSTRATOR'S LIFE 
JULIA MACRAE BOOKS, 1993. FIRST EDITION. HARDBACK 4TO. ORIGINAL PUBLISHERS TAN CLOTH, LETTERED GILT AT THE SPINE. DUST JACKET AS ISSUED. FIRST EDITION.
 
Like new. A fine edition of this superb biography [1993] of the great British lithographer and illustrator Charles Keeping, by the much-respected graphic designer Douglas Martin. A clean, fine copy with no marks, tears or inscriptions. A fascinating account of Keeping's life from the streets of Lambeth in London, to becoming twice winner of the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal. His illustration to  the 1981 edition of Alfred Noyes' The Highwayman was voted as one of the top ten Greenaway winners of all time.