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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)

Price
£750
Signed
Inscribed with title on reverse
Medium
Ink
Dimensions
10 ¾ x 7 ½ inches
Illustrated
Drawn For but Not Illustrated in E C Bentley, Biography For Beginners, London: T Werner Laurie, Undated [1905]
Exhibited
'The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1837-2012', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, November 2012-January 2013, Chris Beetles Gallery, London, no 185

EC Bentley
A close friend of Chesterton from schooldays, Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875- 1956) is best remembered as the inventor of the
'clerihew', a short four-line verse form, usually comic in content, which rivals the limerick in popularity; a number of his finest clerihews were published in Biography for Beginners. A journalist by profession, he also wrote the famous detective story, Trent's Last Case (1913). He was father to the illustrator Nicholas Bentley (1907-78).

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