David Gentleman

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David Gentleman (b. 11 March 1930) is a British artist, engraver, lithographer, and designer.

Gentleman studied at the St Albans School of Art and the Royal College of Art, under John Nash among others.

Gentleman's work has ranged across a wide area and of greatly different scales. His graphic design has ranged in scale from British postage stamps (for which he may be best known) to murals for Charing Cross tube station (London).

1 Bibliography
2 External links

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Surveys of Gentleman's work

Artwork. London: Ebury, 2002. ISBN 0-09-188652-X
The wood engravings of David Gentleman. Montgomery: Esslemont, 2000. ISBN 0-907014-17-8

[edit] Books for children by Gentleman

Fenella in Greece. London: Cape, 1967.
Fenella in Ireland. London: Cape, 1967.
Fenella in the south of France. London: Cape, 1967.
Fenella in Spain. London: Cape, 1967.

[edit] Other works by Gentleman

Bridges on the backs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1961.
A cross for Queen Eleanor: The story of the building of the mediaeval Charing Cross, the subject of the decorations of the Northern Line platforms of the new Charing Cross Underground Station. London: London Transport, 1979. ISBN 0-85329-101-2
David Gentleman's Britain. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1982. ISBN 0-396-08145-2 London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982. ISBN 0-297-78126-X, 1985. ISBN 0-297-78621-0
David Gentleman's London. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1985. ISBN 0-297-78574-5 Dodd, Mead, 1985. ISBN 0-396-08652-7 London: Orion, 1999. ISBN 0-7538-0700-9
David Gentleman's Coastline. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988. ISBN 0-297-79314-4
David Gentleman's Paris. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1991. ISBN 0-340-51869-3 London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000. ISBN 1-84188-052-3
David Gentleman's India. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1994. Delhi: Tara Press, 2005. ISBN 81-87943-71-8
David Gentleman's Italy. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1997 ISBN 0-340-64912-7, 1998 ISBN 0-340-64913-5
Design in miniature. London: Studio Vista, 1972. ISBN 0-289-79791-8 New York: Watson-Gupthill, 1972. ISBN 0-8230-1322-7
A special relationship. London: Faber and Faber, 1987. ISBN 0-571-14992-8
Westminster Abbey. (With Edward Carpenter.) London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987. ISBN 0-297-79314-4

[edit] Books illustrated by Gentleman

Betjeman, John. Illustrated poems of John Betjeman. John Murray, 1994. ISBN 0-7195-5248-6, 1997. ISBN 0-7195-5532-9
Blunden, Edmund. The midnight skaters. Ed. C. Day Lewis. London: Bodley Head, 1968.
Brooke, Justin, and Edith Brooke. Suffolk Prospect. London: Faber & Faber, 1963.
Brown, John Russell. Shakespeare and his theatre. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1982. ISBN 0-688-00850-X Harmondsworth: Kestrel, 1982.
Brown, John Russell. Shakespeare's theatre. New York: Harper Collins, 1982.
Clare, John. The shepherd's calendar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1964.
Evans, George Ewart. The crooked scythe: Anthology of oral history. London: Faber & Faber, 1993. 1995. ISBN 0-571-17194-X
Evans, George Ewart. The pattern under the plough: Aspects of the folk-life of East Anglia. London: Faber & Faber, 1971. ISBN 0-571-08977-1
Evans, George Ewart. The strength of the hills: An autobiography. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1985. ISBN 0-571-13550-1
Evans, George Ewart. Where beards wag all: The relevance of the oral tradition. London: Faber & Faber, 1970. ISBN 0-571-08411-7
"Francine" (Cosette Vogel de Brunhoff). "Vogue" French cookery. London: Peerage, 1984. ISBN 0-907408-86-9
Gray, Patience, and Primrose Boyd. Plats du jour; or, foreign food. Harmondsworth, Middx: Penguin, 1957.
Grigson, Geoffrey. The Shell book of roads. London: Ebury, 1964.
Haggard, F. Rider. King Solomon's mines. Barre, Mass.: Imprint Society, 1970.
Hoban, Russell. The dancing tigers, the Tisbury toads. London: Jonathan Cape, 1977.
Hoban, Russell. The dancing tigers. London: Jonathan Cape, 1979. London: Red Fox, 1991.
Hooker, Jeremy, ed. Inwards where all the battle is: A selection of Alun Lewis's writings from India. Newtown, Powys: Gwasg Gregynog, 1997. ISBN 0-948714-77-8 ISBN 0-948714-73-5
Hornby, John. Gypsies. London: Oliver & Boyd, 1965.
Jonson, Ben. The key keeper: A masque for the opening of Britain's Burse, April 19, 1609. Tunbridge Wells: Foundling Press, 2002.
Kipling, Rudyard. The jungle book. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1968.
Langstaff, John M. The 'Golden Vanity'. New York: Harcourt Brace, Jovanovich 1972. ISBN 0-15-231500-4 Tadworth: World's Work, 1973. ISBN 0-437-54106-1
Langstaff, John M. St George and the dragon. New York: Atheneum, 1973.
Lees, Jim. The ballads of Robin Hood. Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1977.
Moreau, Reginald E. The departed village: Berrick Salome at the turn of the century. Oxford University Press, 1968. ISBN 0-19-211186-8
Notestein, Lucy Lilian. Hill towns of Italy. London: Hutchinson, 1963. Boston: Little, Brown, 1963.
Pudney, John. Bristol fashion: Some account of the earlier days of Bristol Aviation. London: Putnam, 1960.
Simon, André L. What about wine? All the answers. London: Newman Neame, 1953.
Stallworthy, Jon. A familiar tree. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. ISBN 0-19-520050-0
Steel, Flora Annie, ed. Tales of the Punjab, told by the people. London: Bodley Head, 1973.
Stockton, Frank. The griffin and the minor canon. (With Charles Dickens, "The magic fishbone.") London: Bodley Head, 1960.
Vallans, William. A tale of two swannes, wherein is comprehended the original and increase of the River Lee, commonly called the Ware river, together with the antiquities of sundrie places and townes seated upon the same. London: The Lion and Unicorn Press, 1953.
Ward, Aileen, ed. The poems of John Keats. New York: Heritage, 1966.
Woodgate, Leslie. The Penguin part song book. Harmondsworth, Middx: Penguin, 1955.
Wordsworth, William. The solitary song: Poems for young readers. London: Bodley Head, 1970. ISBN 0-370-01118-X
Wyss, Johann. Swiss Family Robinson. New York: Heritage, 1963.