BRIGGS, Raymond (his copies).

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A collection of six works from the Crown Classics Poetry Series. First editions thus, from the library of Raymond Briggs. His ownership inscription, dated January 1955, is on the front free endpaper of four of the books.By 1955, Briggs was already pursuing a career as an artist, having completed four years of art school at the Wimbledon School of Art. That year marked the end of his National Service, when he had been stationed in the Royal Corps of Signals at Catterick, Yorkshire, as a draughtsman. Upon leaving, he entered the Slade School of Fine Art and graduated in 1957. His first illustrations, in Peter and the Piskies: Cornish Folk and Fairy Tales, were published the following year.Each anthology in the Crown Classics series was edited and selected by a contemporary poet, with this selection edited by Jack Lindsay, Fred Marnau, Roland Grant, Stephen Spender, Geoffrey Grigson, and John Rodgers. The aim of the series was to provide "convenient introductions to the English poets" without overwhelming the reader.The posthumous book label of Briggs (1934-2022), illustrator, graphic novelist, cartoonist, and author, is on the front pastedown of each book. 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

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