A collection of original drawings for an unpublished edition of "Wayfaring Folk" by C. Fox Smith.
Leigh-on-Sea, England: F. Lewis, circa 1940s-1950s. Original color drawings and ink drawings. Two on board 38 x 27cm. and 7 on 2 large sheets.
E A Cox was born in Islington, London. He studied at Whitechapel People’s Palace and at Bolt Court, and later at the London College of Printing. For a time he worked as a designer for a manufacturing chemist and as an assistant to the artist Sir Frank Brangwyn. Cox designed murals and posters receiving commissions from London Underground, and the Empire Marketing Board amongst others. He undertook illustrations for number books, favouring historic and heroic adventures. Cox was elected to the Royal Society of British Artists in 1915 and exhibited at most of the leading art venues. He died on 20th April 1955.....
C. (Cicely) Fox Smith (1882-1954) was an English poet and writer, primarily on nautical themes. She lived in Vancouver, Canada, from 1904 - 1913, and learned all she could about ships and sailors. Some believe that she sailed on working ships as well. Lately her poems have been set to music by various folk music performers, but they are otherwise fairly obscure, at least in the United States. Item #16-4718
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