The Drawings of Mervyn Peake

First edition, first impression,  112pp, with 110 reproductions of the drawings of Mervyn Peake.  Brown pictorial cloth-covered boards with yellow titles on spine.  Illustrated endpapers.  4to.  Cloth is a little pushed at extreme corners and spine tips, a little faded in margins.   Upper text block edge a little dust dulled.  Internally neat, clean and tight.  In its original illustrated dust wrapper, price clipped,, bumped on extreme edges.  Dust wrapper now protected in a Mylar-style  sleeve. Mervyn Laurence Peake (1911-1968) was a writer, artist, poet and illustrator. Best known for his Gormenghast books but he first made his name as a painter and illustrator.  For Peake, drawing was an essential of life, part of his daily effort to bring some order to a prodigal imagination which eventually declined to dementia.