English Popular and
Traditional Art

by Enid Marx
Margaret Lambert

With 8 Plates in Colour
And 30 Illustrations in Black & White

Front Cover:

This is a neat old book. It was published in 1946 by Collins, London. The book measures 6 5/8 inches by 9 inches and contains 48 pages. The dust jacket shows signs of wear along the edges with a few small chips and rips. The cover consists of paper covered hard boards. The cover consists of paper covered hard boards. The cover shows signs of wear to the edges, corners and spine area, with some “chipping” apparent. The spine is tight and the hinges are strong. There is an inscription on the front free end page. The pages show no signs of rips. Exceptions noted, the overall condition of this old book itself is good plus.


Title Page


Pedlar Doll Showing Miscellaneous Wares

Excerpt – Dust Jacket:
Popular art is the art which ordinary people have created for their own lives by contrast to the “fine arts” made for special patrons. It covers a wider field than the arts and crafts which are confined exclusively to handwork, and can equally well manifest itself in machine-made things when the right spirit pervades their design. Most countries, including the United States, have taken great interest in their own popular art, both old and new, but in England the subject has received curiously little attention. This is the more unfortunate because, just as folksong has widely influenced modern English music, popular art, in its visual forms, should prove equally stimulating to artists and designers. For the general public it gives, as nothing else can, and intimate picture of the feelings and sympathies, likes and dislikes of many generations of ordinary English people…
End excerpt


Broadside, c. 1830


Top: Sunderland Lustre Motto Plate – The Anti-Corn-Law Campaign, c. 1840.
Bottom: Sunderland Lustre Text Plaque


Barge Decoration


Memento Mori. Painting on Wood in Lyme Regis Parish Church
Pencil and wash drawing by Enid Marx.


Inn Sign – Knights of St. John Tavern, c. 1820


Picture for Tinselling Published by Park


Dust Jacket

Note: The final illustration – Nineteenth Century Christmas Cards


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