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2. "English Myths and traditions" by Henry Bett and ill. by Michael Ayrton - B.T. Batsford, London - 18cmx15cm - 1952 first UK edition first printing - condition: good in original pictorial dustwrapper designed by Michael Ayrton
3. "Ghosts and Witches" by J. Wentworth Day and ill. by Michael Ayrton - 18cmx15cm - B.T. Batsford, London - 1954 first UK edition first printing - condition: very good in original dustwrapper designed by Ayrton
4. "The Human Age" by Wyndam Lewis and ill. by Michael Ayrton - Methuen, London -1956 first UK edition first printing - 18cmx15cm - condition: good in original dustwrapper designed by Ayrton
Michael Ayrton (20 February 1921 – 16 November 1975)[3] was a British artist and writer, renowned as a painter, printmaker, sculptor and designer, and also as a critic, broadcaster and novelist. His varied output of sculptures, illustrations, poems and stories reveals an obsession with flight, myths, mirrors and mazes.
He was also a stage and costume designer, working with John Minton on the 1942 John Gielgud production of Macbeth at the age of nineteen, and a book designer and illustrator for Wyndham Lewis's The Human Age trilogy. An exhibition, 'Word and Image' (National Book League 1971), explored Lewis's and Ayrton's literary and artistic connections.[4] He also collaborated with Constant Lambert and William Golding. 67088253
