Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Bannister, Roger

Title:

Prospect : the Schweppes book of the new generation / advisory editor, Roger Bannister.

Published / Created:

London : Hutchinson, 1962.

Physical Description:

248 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
MSS 17 Moss no. 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss

Copyright Status:

Related Content:

View finding aid for the Roger W. Moss Collection of manuscript, original art and printed material by and about Richard Shirley Smith http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/ycba.mss.0017

Classification:

Books

Notes:

Set in Bembo type and printed by The Anchor Press, Ltd., Tiptree, Essex, on a special smooth wove paper; colour plates printed by L. Van Leer & Company, Netherlands.

Pages 193-197 include a profile of Richard Shirley Smith, with reproductions of five wood engravings (Bain nos. 28-32). "Inclusion in Roger Bannister's Prospect was Shirley Smith's first national recognition as an emerging artist of talent."--Moss.

Moss, R.W. Richard Shirley Smith, 1

Bain, I. Wood engravings of Richard Shirley Smith, 28-32

Includes index.

BAC: From the Roger W. Moss Collection of manuscript, original art and printed material by and about Richard Shirley Smith.

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's original olive-brown cloth, with dust jacket designed by David Gentleman.

"This book is a portrait of the new generation ... of the beliefs and actions of young men and women of the Commonwealth today."--Dust jacket. Each chapter includes a brief essay by (and biographical entry about) the person profiled.

Subject Terms:

Shirley Smith, Richard. | Artists -- Commonwealth countries -- Biography. | Commonwealth countries -- Biography.

Form/Genre:

Wood engravings -- 1962.

Contributors:

Moss, Roger W., 1940– former owner. | Shirley Smith, Richard, engraver. | Gentleman, David, born 1930.