THE ILLUSTRATED VIVIAN STANSHALL. A Fairytale of Grimm Art.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's illustrated laminated card covers. Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Scarce.

Vivian Stanshall (1943-1995), musician, author, poet and artist was perhaps best known as a founding member of the Dadaist 1960s trad jazz mutilators Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. His florid, stentorian contributions influenced everyone from the Beatles to Monty Python, a peripatetic path through the 70s saw him appear as the Master of Ceremonies on Mike Oldfield's 'Tubular Bells' and as a regular lyricist for Steve Winwood, before his 1978 solo LP, the grandiloquent, gothic spoken-word masterpiece 'Sir Henry at Rawlinson End', found lifelong fans in both Jarvis Cocker and Stephen Fry, who declared Stanshall "one of the most talented and magnificent Englishmen ever to have drawn breath". Written by Stanshall's wife of eighteen years, an artist in her own right, much is in Vivian's own words, gleaned from his personal journals and crammed full of his paintings, sketches, unpublished family photos, letters and poems.