BOOKS BY AYRTON
British Drawings (1946 Collins)
Paintings by Michael Ayrton (1948 Grey Walls Press)
(Ed)
Hogarth's Drawings : London Life in the 18thC (1948 Avalon Press)
- with Bernard Denvir
(Notes & Intro)
Chagall (1948 Faber)
(Notes & Intro)
Degas Vol II (1953 Faber)
[French painter, artist & Sculptor 1834-1917]
Giovanni Pisano : Sculptor (1953 Royal Society of Arts)
- pb
Tittivulua or the Verbiage Collector (1953 Max Reinhardt)
Golden Sections (1957 London)
- 1500. Intro by Wyndham Lewis
A Distraction of Wits (1958 CUP)
- Ltd Ed 500
The Testament of Daedalus (1962 Methuen)
Drawings and Sculpture (1962 Cory, Adams & McKay)
The Maze Maker (1967 Longmans)
Berlioz : A Singular Obsession (1969 BBC)
Giovanni Pisano, Sculptor (1969 Thames & Hudson)
(1969 Weybright & Talley, NY)
The Minotaur (1970 PP by Genevieve Restaurants)
The Rudiments of Paradise (1971 S & W)
Fabrications (1972 Secker & Warburg)
The Midas Consequence (1974 Secker & Warburg)
A Meaning to the Maze (1974 Abbey Press, Abingdon)
Archilochos (1977 S & W)
Minotaur ! (1984 Bran's Head Books)
ILLUSTRATED BY AYRTON
AESCHYLUS : The Oresteia (1961 Ltd Eds Club, US)
(1961 Heritage Press, US)
+ 1500 signed by Michael Ayrton
LUCIUS APULEIUS (trans Robert Graves)
: The Golden Ass (1960 Folio Soc)
ARLOTT, John : Clausentum : Sonnets (1946 Cape)
BASILE, Giambattista (trans R Burton)
: The Pentameron (1952 Wm Kimber)
BETT, Henry : English Myths and Legends (1952)
(Trans)
BRIDSON, Douglas G : The Quest of Gilgamesh (1972
Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge)
CHURCH, Richard : North of Rome (1960 Hutchinson 21/-)
EURIPIDES : Medea, Hippolytus, The Bacchae (1967 Ltd Eds Club, USA)
- 1500 signed (1967 Heritage Press, US)
FOA, George : The Blood Rushed to My Pockets (1957 John Calder)
FULLER, Kay : Forfeit (1954 James Barrie)
GRAY, Cecil : Gilles de Rais (1945 Favil Press)
The Bed (1946 Nicholson & Watson)
- with Margery Gray
HOLMYARD, Dr E J (Ed)
: Ancestors of an Industry (1950)
KEATS, John : Poems (1957)
LEWIS, P Wyndham : The Human Age (1955-6 Methuen)
- 2 vols
The Roaring Queen (1973 S & W)
- d/w only
LINKLATER, Eric : Trolleri Med Gamla Ben (A Spell for Old Bones)
(1951 Norstedt, Stockholm)
MACNEICE, Louis : The Other Wing (1954 Faber)
MAXWELL, Gavin : Ring of Bright Water (1960 Longmans)
NASHE, Thomas : Summer's Last Will and Testament - A Masque (1946 OUP)
- music by Constant Lambert
The Unfortunate Traveller (1948 John Lehmann)
(1960 Putnam, USA)
PLATO : The Trial and Execution of Socrates (1972 Folio Soc)
POE, Edgar Allen : Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1957 Folio Soc)
POOL, Phoebe : Poems of Death (1945 Muller)
PORTEUS, Crichton : Pioneers of Fertility (1949 Fertilisers Journal / ICI)
Ancestors of an Industry (1950 Kynoch Press for ICI)
PURCELL, Henry : The Fairy Queen (1948 J Lehmann)
RYLANDS, George (Ed)
: A Distraction of Wits (1958 CUP)
SCHNEIDER, Reinhold : Imperial Mission (1948 Gresham Press, US)
SHAKESPEARE, W : The Tragedy of Macbeth (1951 Folio Soc)
SPARK, Muriel : Not to Disturb (1971
Observer Books/Macmillan)
THOMPSON, David Cleghorn : The Hidden Path - Poems 1922-1942 (1943 Wm Maclellan, Glasgow)
(Eds)
W J TURNER & Sheila SHANNON : New Excursions into English Poetry (1945 Muller)
VERLAINE, Paul : Fetes Galantes (1941 unpublished)
Femmes, Hombres (1971 Douglas Cleverdon)
WEBSTER, John : The Duchess of Malfi (1945 Sylvan Press)
WENTWORTH DAY, J : Ghosts and Witches (1954 Batsford)
WILDE, Oscar : The Picture of Dorian Gray (1948 Castle Press)
PERIODICALS
Radio Times
READING
Peter Cannon-Brookes : Michael Ayrton - An Illustrated Commentary
(1978 Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery)
Justine Hopkins : Michael Ayrton - A Biography (1994 Deutsch)