Arthur Boyd Houghton. A Selection of His Work in Black and White,

£85 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Spine faded, otherwise a very good copy, with the ownership inscription of the architect and arts educator Richard Glazier, principal of the Manchester Municipal School of Art. Houghton died in 1875, at the age of 39, and Housman saw him as a forerunner of the art of the later 19th century: “In the extensive areas of white seen in many of Boyd Houghton’s backgrounds, Housman may have noted an early intimation of the Japanese influence that was to emerge as a persistent iconographic source during the last three decades of the century.” (Peppin The Golden Age of Fantasy Illustration, London, 1975.)

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