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STORY OF A DORSET VILLAGE IN POSTCARDS |
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Greetings
From
Abbotsbury
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Edited
by Paul Atterbury
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Paul
Atterbury has become a regulat visitor to The Book Shop, signing his
various books of postcards
The
postcards reproduced in this book have been drawn from a private collection
and many are extremely rare.
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are just two of the many postcards of Abbotsbury reproduced in this
book. |
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left:
Published by Jerome 1938. Joe Gill and Fred Lexster, Swanherd,
outside the decoy man's cottage at the Swanery.
right:
Published by Seward, Weymouth - 1929. This view was probably taken
from the church tower, looking along Market Street to the norht,
with the school at the top in Market Square.
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Paul
Atterbury is a freelance writer and lecturer specializing in 19th- and
20th-century art and design, particularly ceramics. He was formerly
historical adviser to Royal Doulton and editor of The Connoisseur. His
varied interests include printed ephemera, sculpture, and railway relics.
He was the Curator of the Pugin exhibition at the Victoria and Albert
Museum, London, in 1994, and the same museum's "Victorian Vision"
exhibition in 2001.
If you
would like to order any of Paull's books, just contact The Book Shop
and we will deal with it without delay.
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