Boswell’s London: Drawings by James Boswell Showing Changing London from the Thirties to the Fifties

Circa 100pp, with sketches of London scenes throughout.  In laminated, illustrated card covers.  4to.  A little gentle edge wear to card covers.  Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 

James Bowell, a New Zealander, arrived in London in 1925, studying at the Royal College of Art.  He joined the Ciommunist Party and, in 1933, made eight dark little lithographs for a book – never published, author unknown – called The Fall of London.  Here was that long-awaited apocalypse – looting and mass panic destroying the familiar landmarks of London such as Waterloo, the British Museum and Lyons Corner House.  And then, in 1950, he positioned himself on Victoria Embankment and sketched the beginnings of the Welfare State culture.  Boswell was also known as Bos or Buchan.