The Cigarette Papers: A Eulogy for the Cigarette Packet in Anecdote and Literature

Peter Ashley
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The Cigarette Papers: A Eulogy for the Cigarette Packet in Anecdote and Literature

Peter Ashley
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112 PAGESENGLISH

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  • Published date: Jul 24, 2012
  • Language: English
  • No. of Pages: 112
  • Publisher: Frances Lincoln Adult
  • ISBN: 9780711233577
  • Dimensions: 8.0" W x 0.375" L x 7.0" H

- Celebrates the vanished world of cigarette pack art

'Thank goodness for Peter Ashley . prowling the countryside like a subversive dowser'

Richard Mabey on Pastoral Peculiars



'Peter Ashley scavenges to telling effect'

Iain Sinclair on London Peculiars



'...an absolutely stunning illustrated book...'

A.N.Wilson in The Daily Telegraph on Unmitigated England



'Until the happy advent of Peter Ashley's Cross Country it has, ironically, been foreigners who have been best at celebrating Englishness'.

Christina Hardyment The Independent

Unexpectedly pleasing and engrossing celebration of 20th-century cigarette pack art, beautifully illustrated and accompanied by a witty and anecdotal commentary by the likes of John Betjeman, Ian Fleming and Will Self.

a collection of classic packets...many fine examples

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Crammed with nicely researched material on every aspect of cigarette packaging on the 20th century...In all, an interesting book

Naughty nostalgia for a lost art

Peter Ashley is the author and photographer of over twenty books, including London Peculiars, Pastoral Peculiars, Unmitigated England and More from Unmitigated England. He edited Railway Rhymes for the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series and collaborated with Philip Wilkinson on books accompanying the BBC Restoration programmes, as well as The English Buildings Book, the ultimate guide to building types. Recent years have seen Built for Britain: From Bridges to Beach Huts (2009), followed by Cross Country (2011). He broadcasts regularly, notably talking about manhole covers and post boxes with Libby Purves on Radio 4's Midweek and reciting Betjeman on the Today programme. He has also been seen expounding on railway poetry for BBC 4's Between the Lines.He lives in Slawston, Leicestershire.

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