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Molesworth: St Custards Explained
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Ronald William Fordham Searle (b.1920)
Molesworth: St Custards Explained
signed and dated 'Ronald Searle/1954' (lower right) and inscribed 'Blast the cosmik regenerator-it's our only hope!/Blasted, sir!/The peason-molesworth space ship threatened by wild mercurian maths masters lies/disabled in the onion bed.../Molesworth must be disinteggrated!/Si/Oui!/Yeah,/oh master/Meanwhile in the master's common room/Sigismund arbuthnot the mad maths master musters his rhomboids./Molesworth:How to be Topp'
pencil and pen and brush and black ink, unframed
14¾ x 10¼in. (37.5 x 26cm.)
Molesworth: St Custards Explained
signed and dated 'Ronald Searle/1954' (lower right) and inscribed 'Blast the cosmik regenerator-it's our only hope!/Blasted, sir!/The peason-molesworth space ship threatened by wild mercurian maths masters lies/disabled in the onion bed.../Molesworth must be disinteggrated!/Si/Oui!/Yeah,/oh master/Meanwhile in the master's common room/Sigismund arbuthnot the mad maths master musters his rhomboids./Molesworth:How to be Topp'
pencil and pen and brush and black ink, unframed
14¾ x 10¼in. (37.5 x 26cm.)
Literature
An original illustration for Molesworth: How to be Topp
Max Parrish: London, 1954, page 24
Molesworth, Penguin Classics, 1999, page 124
Max Parrish: London, 1954, page 24
Molesworth, Penguin Classics, 1999, page 124
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