This cropped up on Twitter- E. Nesbit’s 'Book Of Dragons'. I'm unfamiliar with this book but it looks great and has been in print for a century! I'm not sure which edition features these wonderful Searle dragons but it looks like early Searle-perhaps late forties?
A similar dragon design appeared in this illustration for a Patrick Campbell story in Lilliput magazine.
This next one appeared in 'Haven't We Met Before Somewhere?' (1966)
A much later design featured in this 1982 drawing for a Lloyds Bank Brochure.
#3 'Coping With the Unexpected in Farming' 1982
3 comments:
Love these dragons
A fun collection of whimsical stories. Every version I read as a child had illos by Erik Blegvad. I can’t see there were any editions from the 40s-50s (particularly from the signature). Since both of the illos are from the same story I wonder if these are from a magazine instead.
-matthew davis
The Twitter user stated that he found it in a compendium of children's book illustrators
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