Beschreibung:

Bentley (Nicolas Clerihew, 1907-1978). Original pen and ink cartoon with three layers, circa 1932, depicting the verse 'Romance' from the book All Fall Down, the cartoon being composed of the original layer of paper on board, 15 x 13.5 cm (5.75 x 5.25 ins), showing two men seated in a railway carriage, representing the first image accompanying the poem, the second (partial) layer tipped over the first, altering the heads of the two men and representing the final image of the poem, and the third (partial) layer tipped over the first 2 layers, altering the image to represent the middle image of the poem, the three layers numbered in pencil 90, 92, and 91 respectively, together with All Fall Down! or The Nonsense Fancier's Assistant, compiled by Nicolas Bentley, Who Also Drew the Pictures, 1st edition, [1932], numerous black & white images accompanying verses, including the verse and images described above, some finger-soiling and minor marks, original yellow boards printed in red, soiled and stained, lacking spine, small 4to, plus Fantoni (Barry, 1940), Two original pen and ink on paper cartoons, the first entitled 'Dungovernin', depicting a man and dog outside the gates of a large house with the name over the gates, sheet size 18 x 14.5 cm (7 x 5.75 ins), the second entitled 'Ronan Point Files Lost', depicted on the side of a newspaper stand selling The Times, and showing a man approaching the newspaper seller, with the caption beneath Perhaps They Were Stacked on Top of Each Other, both items signed at centre bottom and mounted on board, sheet size 17 x 12.5 cm (6.75 x 5 ins) (Qty: 4) Provenance: 'Ronan Point Files Lost' was originally in the Charles Knevitt Collection. Knevitt was the architectural correspondent for The Times in 1984 who interviewed Sam Webb - an architect who helped submit evidence to the Ronan Point inquiry held after a block of flats partly collapsed following a gas explosion in 1968 - who stated that some parts of the inquiry report had been altered. Knevitt's story ran on the front page of the paper. Soon after, the report files were released into the public domain, following which Webb alleged that some of the files he had seen in 1970 were missing, or 'lost'. Barry Fantoni was a cartoonist for The Times between 1983-1991.