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Michael Ayrton

Male : Mazemaker, Painter, Engraver, Sculptor, Novelist, Essayist, Critic, Art Historian, Broadcaster, Stage-Designer, Cinema & TV film-maker and book illustrator. Died of a massive heart attack
Nationality : English Place of Birth : London

Date of Birth : 1921 Date of Death : 1975 Age : 54
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)