THUNDER, Rosamund.

£100 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Haunted House. First edition, inscribed by the author to Raymond Briggs on the half-title, "To Raymond, best wishes with lots of love, Ros x" and with a thumb print signed "Ros was here 1975". The book was printed and bound at Brighton School of Art, where Briggs taught illustration from 1961 to 1986. Thunder was likely one of Briggs's students.Briggs was a "champion of strip cartoon", a style he first employed in Father Christmas (1973) and used to great effect in The Snowman (1978) (Guardian). Thunder's own work echoes this, with full-page comic strip style illustrations, with no accompanying words.Briggs's (1934-2022) posthumous book label is opposite the half-title. The winner of numerous awards, including the Kate Greenaway Medal (twice), the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and the Kurt Maschler Award, Briggs noted that "the whole point of illustration is that it is literary. If it is not, it remains a drawing only... Something must be 'going on' in the illustration" (Horne, p. 124).

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