/ NEAR NEW – 1980 1st EDITION /

Charles Tunnicliffe, OBE, RA, was raised on a farm in Cheshire and studied at the Royal College of Art, after which he soon made his mark.

In 1932 he illustrated Tarka the Otter and later dozens of books for well-known authors and produced several classics of his own.

But his major achievement is as a wildlife bird artist.

This book samples his enormous output of work in various facets from wood engravings to water colours and oils.

In 1947 he moved from Manchester to a house called Shorelands at Malltraeth, on the estuary of the Afon Cefni on Anglesey, where he lived until his death in 1979.

Tunnicliffe worked in several media, including watercolor painting, etching and aquatint, wood engraving, woodcut, scraperboard (sometimes called scratchboard), and oil painting.

Much of his work depicted birds in their natural settings. He illustrated Henry Williamson's Tarka the Otter and his work was also used to illustrate Brooke Bond tea cards and as a result was seen by millions of young people in Britain during the 1950s and 1960s.

He also illustrated a number of books, including the Ladybird series. His work was characterised by its precision and accuracy, but also by the way in which he was able to portray birds as they were seen in nature rather than as stiff scientific studies.

From March 1953, he painted many of the cover illustrations for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds's magazine Bird Notes, and several for the later Birds magazines.

Portrait of a Country Artist – CF Tunnicliffe RA, 1901-79, by Ian Niall is a 1980 first edition published by Victor Gollancze, London.

It is a near-new 160-page 21.5x28.5cm hard cover with dust jacket packed with the artist’s amazing work.

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