中文简介：

爱德华·鲍登（Edward Bawden，1903-1989）是一位版画家、水彩画家、插画家和设计师。他曾在皇家艺术学院学习，并后来成为该校的教师。在第二次世界大战期间，他担任了战争艺术家的职务，并作为商业艺术家为伦敦运输公司、福南梅森公司、壳牌公司、弗里欧书社以及查托和温都斯公司等机构工作。除了在担任战争艺术家时在法国、中东和北非度过的那些年，以及后来对加拿大和爱尔兰的访问，鲍登很少远离自己的家乡埃塞克斯，而是在家乡的田野和农场、海边以及伦敦的经典场景中汲取灵感。这些景点包括邱园、皇家公园、伦敦塔、圣保罗大教堂和玻璃纪念碑，以及利物浦街车站、斯皮塔菲尔德市场、史密斯菲尔德市场等维多利亚时期工程。

本书通过V&A收藏的85件作品，包括版画、海报、素描、油画、壁画和广告材料，来展现鲍登所描绘的英格兰。这些插图包括他的早期作品，如1924年为一个展览制作的海报《Map of the British Empire》；1946年为东方航运公司设计的壁画《English Garden Delights》；为《Good Food》、《The Gardener's Diary》和《英国村庄的生活》等书籍制作的插图；为伦敦运输公司、壳牌公司和福南梅森公司制作的广告作品；为纪念1953年伊丽莎白二世女王的加冕而制作的海报《Lifeguards》；以及各种线刻画和水彩画作品。

英文简介：

Edward Bawden (1903-1989) was a printmaker, painter, illustrator and designer. He studied and later taught at the Royal College of art, served as a war artist in WW2 and worked extensively as a commercial artist for companies including London Transport, Fortnum and Mason, Shell-Mex, the Folio Society and Chatto and Windus. Aside from the years he spent in France, the Middle East and North Africa while serving as a war artist, and later visits to Canada and Ireland, Bawden rarely travelled far from home, but found inspiration in the fields and farms of his native Essex, at the seaside, and in classic London scenes: Kew Gardens, the Royal Parks, the Tower of London and St Paul's Cathedral, and the iron-and-glass monuments to Victorian engineering such as Liverpool Street station and the markets in Spitalfields and Smithfield.

This book celebrates England as represented by Bawden in 85 works held in the V&A's collection, including prints, posters, drawings, paintings, murals and advertising material. The illustrations include such early pieces as his poster Map of the British Empire for an exhibition in 1924; his mural English Garden Delights, designed for the Orient Line Navigation Company in 1946; illustrations for books including Good Food, The Gardener's Diary and Life in an English Village; advertising work for London Transport, Shell and Fortnum & Mason; the poster Lifeguards, created to mark the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953; and a varied selection of linocuts and watercolours.