"Cecil Beaton's Scrapbook" 1937 Beaton, Cecil

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BEATON, Cecil

[135] pp.

B. T. Batsford

1937

11 1/2" x 9 1/2"

Cecil Beaton's second book with the scarce … Read more BEATON, Cecil

[135] pp.

B. T. Batsford

1937

11 1/2" x 9 1/2"

Cecil Beaton's second book with the scarce dust jacket.

'On the shelves at Ashcombe, I have now over fifty diaries & scrapbooks, memorials of many violated magazines, repositories of museum picture postcards, theatrical programmes, letters, photographs & pictorial miscellanea which have accumulated since childhood. Christian Bérard suggested to me that a similar scrapbook might be distilled from my own work during the last five years; & that is what has been done.' (from the preface).

Beaton's photographs and drawings are collected together here and accompanied by witty essays on subjects such as Christmas, Winter House Party, Mrs Simpson: 20th November 1936, Marlene Dietrich, Garbo, Hats, New York, Dubrovnik, The Russian Ballet and Coronation. See less