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John Egerton Piper

Male : Writer & Artist. Married Eileen Holding & in Myfanwy Evans (who in 1937 became his second wife)
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Epsom, Surrey

Date of Birth : 1903

Education : Epsom College, Richmond School of Art & RCA
The Wind in the Trees (1921 Horseshoe Publishing) - verse
The Gaudy Saint & Other Poems
(1924 Horseshoe)
Shell Guide to Oxfordshire
(1938 Batsford) (1939 Faber) (1953 Faber)
Brighton Aquatints
(1939 Duckworth) - 200 copies
Brighton Aquatints
(1939 Duckworth) - 55 de luxe signed editions
A copy of this sold at Sotheby's in 1997 for £2900
British Romantic Artists
(1943 Collins Britain in Pictures)
The Colour of English Country Houses
(1944 Pamphlet accompanying No 8 of "International Textiles")
Buildings and Prospects
(1948 Architectural Press)
Murray's Buckinghamshire Architectural Guide
(1948 John Murray) - with John Betjeman
Murray's Berkshire Architectural Guide
(1949 John Murray) - with John Betjeman
Romney Marsh
(1950 King Penguin)
Shell Guide to Shropshire
(1951 Faber) - with John Betjeman
Shell Guide to Oxfordshire
(1953 Faber. 2nd Ed)
Venice
(1965 Lion & Unicorn Press) (1965 Duckworth) - with Adrian Stokes
Shell Guide to Wiltshire
(1968 Faber) - with J H Cheetham
Stained Glass : Art or Anti-Art
(1968 Studio Vista)
Shell Guide to Kent
(1969 Faber) - with Pennethorne Hughes
John Piper's Stowe
(1963 Hurtwood Press) - 250 copies. With Mark Girouard
(1963 Hurtwood Press) - De luxe Edition 50 copies. With Mark Girouard
A Painter's Camera
(1987 Tate Gallery)

BOOKS ILLUSTRATED BY PIPER
John BETJEMAN : John Piper
(1948 Penguin Modern Painters)
(Ed) English, Scottish & Welsh Landscape 1700-1860 (1944 Muller) - with Geoffrey Taylor
First and Last Loves
(1952 John Murray)
Poems in the Porch
(1954 SPCK pb)
(Ed) Collins' Guide to English Parish Churches (1958 Collins)
(Ed) Collins' Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches (1968 Collins) - 2 vols
Church Poems
(1981 Murray)
(Ed) Ronald BLYTHE : Places - An Anthology of Britain (1981 OUP)
Edmund BLUNDEN : The Great Church of the Holy Trinity, Long Melford
(1966 Long Melford, Suffolk 2/6) - Booklet. cover design John Piper
Sir Thomas BROWNE : The Last Chapter of Urne Buriall
(1946 Rampant Lions Press)
(Eds) Jean CORKE, John BLATCHLY & John FITCH : Suffolk Churches
(1980 Suffolk Churches Historic Trust)
(Ed) Ronald F H DUNCAN : The Rape of Lucretia - A Symposium (1948 Bodley Head)
Judas
(1960 Anthony Blond) (1960 Blond - 500 copies)
John DYER : Grongar Hill
(1982 Stourton Press) - 160 copies signed by Piper
Grongar Hill
(1982 Stourton Press) - De Luxe edition 15 copies signed by Piper
(Ed) Geoffrey ELBORN : Hand and Eye (1977 Tragara Press) - 155 copies
Hand and Eye
(1977 Tragara Press) - 20 copies signed by Samuel Beckett & Seamus Heaney
John Piper on His 80th Birthday
(1983 Stourton Press)
(Ed) Myfanwy EVANS : The Painter's Object (1937 Gerald Howe)
The Pavilion - A Contemporary Collection of British Art & Architecture
(1946 I T Publications)
Robin FEDDEN : The Enchanted Mountains - A Quest in the Pyrenees
(1962 Murray)
(Ed) John HADFIELD : Elizabethan Love Songs (1955 Cupid Press) - 660 copies
Norman HANCOCK : An Innocent Grows Up
(1947 Dent)
(Ed) Wilhelmine HARROD : Norfolk Country Churches and the Future (1972 Norfolk Society)
Alun HODDINOT : The Tree of Life
(1971 OUP)
C Day LEWIS : Poems in Wartime
(1940 Cape)
Kenneth LINDLEY : Of Graves and Epitaphs
(1965 Hutchinson)
Urns and Angels
(1965 Pointing Finger Press) - with Joyce Lindley
Walter De La MARE : The Traveller
(1946 Faber)
(Ed) Cyril MOORE : Countrygoer's Heritage (1945 Countrygoer Books)
Countrygoer No 5
(1946 Countrygoer Books)
James MORRIS : Oxford
(1965 Faber)
Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress
(1973 Faber)
Edwin MUIR : Prometheus - Ariel Poem
(1954 Faber)
Charles A PIPER : Sixty-Three Not Out - A Book of Recollections
(1925 Curwen Press)
(Ed) William PLOMER : Kilvert's Diary (1944 Cape / Reader's Union)
Peter PORTER: Les Tres Riches Heures
(1978 Keepsake Press)
(Ed) Roger PRINGLE & Christopher HAMPTON : A Selection from Poems for Shakespeare : Vols 1-6
(1978 Globe Playhouse Publications)
Arthur RAISTRICK : Dynasty of Ironfounders
(1953 Longmans Green)
J M RICHARDS : The Castles on the Ground
(1946 Architectural Press)
Anne RIDLER : The Jesse Tree
(1972 Lyrebird Press)
Bertrand RUSSELL : The Wisdom of the West
(1959 Macdonald)
Michael SADLEIR : Forlorn Sunset
(1947 Constable)
Ivan SANDERSON & Sacheverell SITWELL : A Century of Sanderson 1860-1960
(1960 Arthur Sanderson)
George SITWELL : On the Making of Gardens
(1949 Dropmore Press) - 900 copies
On the Making of Gardens
(1949 Dropmore Press) - de Luxe Edition 100 copies
Osbert SITWELL : Left Hand, Right Hand - Autobiography
(1945-50 Macmillan) - 5 vols
John SPARROW : Santa Maria Della Salute
(1975 Rampant Lions Press)
(Compiler) Janet STONE : Edward Sydney Woods, 94th Bishop of Lichfield (1954 Gollancz)
(Trans) Meary J TAMBIMUTTU : India Love Poems (1977 Paradine, US / Lyrebird Press)
Arnold J TAYLOR : Castell Caernarfon
(1969 HMSO) - pamphlet
Dylan THOMAS : Deaths and Entrances
(1984 Gwas Gregynog) - signed by Piper
R S THOMAS : The Mountains
(1969 Rampant Lions Press / Chilmark Press, US) - 350
(1969 Rampant Lions Press / Chilmark Press, US) - De Luxe Edition 110
(Ed) Henry THOROLD : Lincolnshire Churches - Their Past & Their Future
(c1975 Lincolnshire Old Churches Trust)
Lincolnshire Churches Revisited
(1989 Michael Russell)
David VEREY : Shell Guide to Wiltshire
(1956 Faber)
Gilbert WHITE : The Natural History of Selborne
(1962 Folio Society)
S John WOODS : John Piper - Paintings, Drawings and Theatre Designs 1932-54
(1955 Faber)
William WORDSWORTH : A Guide through the District of the Lakes in the North of England
(1951 Hart-Davis)
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The Installation of Electricity in Churches
(1955 Central Council for the Care of Churches) - pamphlet
Flower in Praise
(1966 Chichester Cathedral)
100 Hymns for Today
(1969 William Clowes) - pb
Oxfordshire Historic Churches Appeal
(c1970 Pergamon Press) - pamphlet
Festival Programme
(1975 Llandeibrefi Arts Festival) - pamphlet
Chichester 900
(c1975 Chichester Cathedral)
Festival Programme
(1976 Llandeibrefi Arts Festival) - pamphlet
More Hymns for Today
(1980 Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd) - pb

BOOKS WITH PIPER DUSTWRAPPERS
Osbert Sitwell : Selected Poems - Old & New
(1943 Duckworth)
Palinurus
(Cyril Connolly) : The Unquiet Grave (1945 Hamish Hamilton)
Evelyn Waugh : Scott-King's Modern Europe
(1947 Chapman & Hall)
William Sansom : South
(1948 Hodder & Stoughton)
Geoffrey grigson : An English Farmhouse and Its Neighbourhood
(1948 Max Parrish)
Elisabeth Inglis-Jones : Peacocks in Paradise
(1950 Faber)
T D Kendrick : British Antiquity
(1950 Methuen)
Edith Sitwell : Facade and Other Poems
(1950 Duckworth)
Julian Duguid : The Blue triangle
(1955 Hodder & Stoughton)
Basil F L Clarke : Anglican Cathedrals Outside the British Isles
(1958 SPCK)
Yvonne Mitchell : The Bed-Sitter
(1959 Arthur Barker)
William Golding : The Spire
(1964 Faber)
Eric Mottram : A Book of Herne 1975-1981
(1981 Arrowspire Press)

MAGAZINES WITH PIPER ILLUSTRATIONS OR LITERARY CONTRIBUTIONS
The Nation and Atheneum
(1928-33)
The New Statesman and Nation
(1933-8)
The Listener
(1933-40)
Architectural Review
(1936-61)
Axis
(1935-7) - 8 issues
Curwen Press Newsletter
(1939 No. 16) - cover by Piper
Horizon
(1940 January. Vol 1 No 1) - cover by Piper
Signature No 13
(1940 Jan)
Architect & Building News
(1941) - 2 issues with Piper illus
The Spectator
(1941-5)
Cornhill Magazine
(1944-5)
Ambassador
(1946-54)
Britain Today No 144
(1948 Oct)
Penrose Annual Vol 48
(1949)
Quarto No 25
(1982 Jan-Feb)
Poetry London / Apple Magazine No 2
(1982)

READING
(Intro) S John Woods : John Piper - Paintings, Drawings & Theatre Designs 1932-1954
(1955 Faber) (1955 Curt Valentin, NY)
Anthony West : John Piper - A Monograph
(1979 Secker & Warburg) - 100 with a signed litho by Piper
Richard Ingrams : Piper's Places
(1983 Chatto & Windus)
Orde Levinson : John Piper - The Complete Graphic Works : Catalogue Raisonne 1928-83
(1987 Faber)

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