Harry Brockway Retrospective

FS have a Harry Brockway retrospective by Joe Whitlock Blundell up on their website. The first of two parts.

https://www.foliosociety.com/uk/blog/harry-brockway-1958-2024-part-one-1988-2004...

Thanks for pointing that out. RIP to an outstanding engraver.

Oh no! I love his work. This is really sad.

I guess I definitely need to pick up the upcoming Centipede Press Quentin S. Crisp book that Brockway illustrated as that may be the last one.

Sad to hear of his passing. I really like his work, very distinctive.

I love his work. This is the first I've heard of his death. Very sad.

Really sad, and no great age nowadays. A truly great black & white British illustrator, and one of the last of that wonderful postwar tradition, which the Folio Society and the Radio Times helped to foster.

Very sad to hear about this. I loved the little pieces he used to do for The Guardian as well as his Folio work.

A true master. It's amazing to realize how accomplished he was even at such a young age. His work feels so timeless.

I have Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Brothers Karamazov, Culloden, Glencoe and Highland Clearences, Y. B. Yeats Folio Poets. Love them all.

I just ordered a copy of The Vision of Piers the Plowman.

I need to get a copy of The Man Who Planted Trees from the Harvill press.

RIP.

RIP, Harry Brockway. Thank you for an amazing legacy:

All's well that ends well (1988) Frontispiece
The Merchant of Venice (1988) Frontispiece
The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare (1989)
Agnes Grey (1991)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1993)
The Garden and Other Poems (1993)
Glencoe (1996)
Culloden (1996)
Crime and Punishment (1997)
Othello (1997) Frontispiece
Daniel Deronda (1999)
Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral by Francis Bacon (2002)
The Highland Clearances (2003)
Frankenstein (2004)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (2005)
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats (2007)
The Brothers Karamazov (2008)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (2010)
The Vision of Piers the Plowman (2014)
Brideshead Revisited (2018)
Maigret Set One (2018)
Maigret Set Two (2019)
The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2021)

And apologies if I omitted anything :)

RIP.

I have several of the books he illustrated and always enjoyed his work very much.

Here's an obituary: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/feb/06/harry-brockway-obituary

>11 SF-72: Wow, I didn't realize how young he was. Amazing that he started for Folio in his twenties.

So sad to hear this news. The 2004 Frankenstein is one of my most favourite Folio editions, love the binding design, size, and of course the Brockway illustrations. Would not swap it for the newer edition. I wish Folio produced more books in that size, so much easier to hold and read.

RIP Mr Brockway, a truly talented artist.

Too bad about Brockway, his work included many of my favorite illustrations. Although he wasn't young, he certainly died younger than one expects. RIP, Harry, God bless.