LESLEY BLANCH I had to earn my living double quick! I went to The Slade and studied painting. Among my contemporaries were Oliver Messel, Rex Whistler and others who became famous later. I picked a living doing book jackets and private commissions before I started journalism...

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"Darling Self". From Round The World in 80 Dishes by Lesley Blanch (1956) illustrated with over 60 line drawings by Blanch
Cover of Come Into The Garden Cook by Constance Spry (1942) also illustrated with over 30 line drawings by Lesley Blanch
Watercolour in a feigned cabinet: ‘Inside Buckingham Palace’ - a folding cabinet with a bird's eye view of vignettes of life at the Palace, circa 1930s. Signed lower right on the Palace doors "L Blanch". Sold at auction September 2006
A gift from Lesley Blanch to Dr Philip Gosse, author of The History of Piracy, by whom bequeathed to Raymond Lister in the 1950s and by descent.

The following series, in an album, was a gift from Lesley Blanch to Dr Philip Gosse, author of The History of Piracy, son of Sir Edward Gosse, the writer; later bequeathed to Raymond Lister in the 1950s and by descent.

Watercolour: Royal Visit to France, July 1938, 'Our Sailor King'

signed lower right "L Blanch". Sold at auction September 2006

Watercolour: Royal Visit to France, July 1938, 'Just Like You or Me....'

Signed lower left "L Blanch". Sold at auction September 2006

Watercolour: Royal Visit to France, July 1938, 'The Coronation'

Signed "L Blanch". Sold at auction September 2006

Watercolour: Royal Visit to France, July 1938, 'In the Waiting Room'

Signed lower left "L Blanch". Sold at auction September 2006

Watercolour: Royal Visit to France, July 1938, 'A Souvenir of the Royal Visit' - tailpiece

Signed lower right "L Blanch 1938". Sold at auction September 2006.