The Last of Uptake, Illustrated by Rex Whistler
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Harcourt-Smith, Simon. The Last of Uptake. Second Edition. 1967. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition. Illustrations by Rex Whistler.
In Hollywood, they caution that one must be careful of being upstaged by animals and children. In this English novel, it is the house monopolizing the spotlight. The central character in this Rex Whistler-illustrated book is Uptake, a grand English country home. It is nominally a farce about two feuding sisters, but depictions of the home and its grounds matter as much as the plot. This was one of the final projects of the great English illustrator before his untimely death, and it is among the best of his work executed in the neo-Baroque style. As to both the text and drawings, this is a book for the aesthete.
“Tryphena’s mother, it was true, had on the whole been normal enough; her constant preoccupation with health left her little time for fancies.”
--Simon Harcourt-Smith
In Hollywood, they caution that one must be careful of being upstaged by animals and children. In this English novel, it is the house monopolizing the spotlight. The central character in this Rex Whistler-illustrated book is Uptake, a grand English country home. It is nominally a farce about two feuding sisters, but depictions of the home and its grounds matter as much as the plot. This was one of the final projects of the great English illustrator before his untimely death, and it is among the best of his work executed in the neo-Baroque style. As to both the text and drawings, this is a book for the aesthete.
“Tryphena’s mother, it was true, had on the whole been normal enough; her constant preoccupation with health left her little time for fancies.”
--Simon Harcourt-Smith
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