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BOOKS, PRINTS & MUGS BY ERIC RAVILIOUS

Born in 1903, Eric Ravilious was a gifted artist and designer who captured the quintessential Englishness of inter-war Britain.market for his work is buoyant across the board and we recently sold a 1938 first-edition copy of by JM Richards and Eric Ravilious for £2,148 in our 20th Century Design sale. A year earlier, a lithograph of , an illustration from the book, made £744. Wedgwood ceramics go well too; Ravilious designed a mug celebrating the coronation of King George VI, later amended for Queen Elizabeth, and one of these sold for £316 earlier this year.

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