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'''Lynton Lamb''' [[Royal Designers for Industry|RDI]], [[Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce|FSRA]], FSIA (15 April 1907 – 4 September 1977) was an English artist-designer, author, [[lithography|lithographer]] and illustrator who was notable for his [[book jacket]], [[poster]], architectural decoration and postage stamp designs.<ref name=RoyalMail>{{cite book|year=2005|author=Royal Mail |title= The First Elizabeth II Castle High Value Definitives|publisher=Royal Mail}}</ref><ref name=Mackies>{{cite book|year=1978|author= George Mackies|title= Lynton Lamb, Illustrator|publisher=Scolar Press}}</ref><br />
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==Life and work==<br />
He was born the son of [[The Reverend]] Frederick Lamb in Nizambabad, [[India]], grew up in London and was educated at [[Kingswood School]], [[Bath, Somerset]]. He then worked in an [[Estate Agents]] office and attended night school at [[Camberwell School of Art]] before studying art full-time at the [[Central School of Arts and Crafts]].<br />
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From 1930 he designed book jackets and bindings for the [[Oxford University Press]], and other publishers, with a break for military service during [[World War II]] when he designed [[camouflage]] and in 1936 he had an exhibition of paintings at the [[Storran Gallery]].[[Image:Timbre Tanger UKsurch 2-6 1957.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Postage stamp designed by Lynton Lamb]]<br />
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Lamb provided the illustrations for the first edition (1939) of [[Flora Thompson]]'s novel ''[[Lark Rise]]'',<ref name="Mabey">{{cite book | chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lTbyAQAAQBAJ&pg=PT149&lpg=PT149&dq=lynton+lamb+illustrator+lark+rise#v=snippet&q=lynton%20lamb | title=Dreams of the Good Life | publisher=Allen Lane | author=Mabey, Richard | year=2014 | isbn=978-1846142789 | chapter=Chapter 12}}</ref> the first part of what became her ''[[Lark Rise to Candleford]]'' trilogy.<br />
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He designed decorations for [[Orient Steam Navigation Company|Orient Lines]] ships from 1935-1950, exhibited works at the [[Festival of Britain]] in 1951 and designed the binding of the Bible used at the [[Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II]]. In 1953/54 he designed the [[Queen Elizabeth II]] [[Castle series stamps|Castle series]] high-value definitive stamps issue which featured views of four castles in England, [[Scotland]], [[Wales]] and [[Northern Ireland]] framed by an old stone wall later nicknamed the 'broken grotto'.<ref name="RoyalMail"/> He received the International Philatelic Art Society Award for the designs in 1960: in 2005 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of their issue the Post Office reproduced the designs with new values and the [[Royal Mint]] produced a set of silver [[ingot]]s featuring the designs in 2006.<br />
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Lamb was the Author of the ''Inspector Charles Glover'' Detective stories, ''Death of a Dissenter, Worse Than Death, Picture Frame and Man in a Mist'', published by Victor Gollancz, London, between 1969 and 1974.<br />
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His art publications included ''The Purpose of Painting'' (1936) and ''Preparation for Painting'' (1954). He was head of [[lithography]] at the [[Royal College of Art]] and [[Slade School of Fine Art]] and was named '[[Royal Designers for Industry|Royal Designer to Industry]]' in 1974. He lived in retirement in [[Sandon, Essex]] and died aged 70.<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
* George Mackie, ''Lynton Lamb Illustrator'' (1978)<br />
* Lynton Lamb, ''Drawing for Illustration'' (1962)<br />
* Lynton Lamb, 'The True Illustrator', in ''Motif''; 2 (1959 February), p.&nbsp;70–76<br />
* Lynton Lamb, 'Predicaments of Illustration', in ''Signature''; new series, 4 (1947), p.&nbsp;16–27<br />
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