A Phoenix Too Frequent

A beautiful edition of Christopher Fry's story illustrated by Searle in 1959 in a more classical style than usual.  He would do complimentary drawings the next year for Robert Grave's 'The Anger of Achilles' 1960

Refugees pt.2

Searle's Refugees sketches as originally published in Punch magazine (Dec. 30, 1959). Pt. 1 here.

Achilles

While on a Greek theme here's Searle's cover illustration for Robert Graves' Homeric translation 'The Anger of Achilles'

The US edition had interior illustrations too.

An extract appeared in Harper's Bazaar 1959

Portrait of Graves, 1950