Baynes, Pauline Diana (sold)
Pauline Diana Baynes (September 9, 1922 - August 1, 2008) was an English illustrator and commercial artist. Pauline was born in Hove, Sussex, England and spent her early years in Agra and Mussoorie, India, where her father was a magistrate with the British imperial Indian Civil Service. At age 5, she returned with her mother and sister to England, where she lived a nomadic life - seeing very little of her father thereafter, who remained in India. She studied at the Beaufort School, then at the Farnham School of Art, then at the prestigious Slade School of Fine Art. During World War II she severed with the Women's Voluntary Service at the Camouflage Development Training Centre at Farnham Castle. After the war she submitted several drawing to the publisher George, Allen and Unwin, through which they caught the attention of fantasy novelist J. R. R. Tolkien. Her subsequent collaboration with Tolkien including illustrations for Farmer Giles of Ham, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings, among others, as well as supplementary promotional work, including several maps. Baynes' illustrations for Tolkien's, caught the attention of C. S. Lewis, who contracted her to illustrate for the Chronicles of Narnia. She continued to illustrate for books and novels until she died of ischaemic heart disease at 85.
Iconic Tolkien promotional poster map.
This is the iconic 1970 rare poster map of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle Earth drawn by Pauline Diana Baynes to promote the George, Allen and Unwin release of the Lord of the Rings. Tolkien heaped praise upon Baynes' work, saying 'They are more than illustrations, they are a collateral theme. I showed them to my friends whose polite comment was that they reduced my text to a commentary on the drawings.' (more details)
Iconic Tolkien promotional poster map.
This is the iconic 1970 rare poster map of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle Earth drawn by Pauline Diana Baynes to promote the George, Allen and Unwin release of the Lord of the Rings. Tolkien heaped praise upon Baynes' work, saying 'They are more than illustrations, they are a collateral theme. I showed them to my friends whose polite comment was that they reduced my text to a commentary on the drawings.' (more details)
Iconic Tolkien promotional poster map.
This is the iconic 1970 rare poster map of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle Earth drawn by Pauline Diana Baynes to promote the George Allen and Unwin release of the Lord of the Rings. Tolkien heaped praise upon Baynes' work, saying 'They are more than illustrations, they are a collateral theme. I showed them to my friends whose polite comment was that they reduced my text to a commentary on the drawings.' (more details)
Iconic Tolkien promotional poster map.
This is the iconic 1970 rare poster map of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle Earth drawn by Pauline Diana Baynes to promote the George Allen and Unwin release of the Lord of the Rings. Tolkien heaped praise upon Baynes' work, saying, 'They are more than illustrations, they are a collateral theme. I showed them to my friends whose polite comment was that they reduced my text to a commentary on the drawings.' (more details)
Iconic Tolkien promotional poster map.
This is the iconic 1970 rare poster map of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle Earth drawn by Pauline Diana Baynes to promote the George Allen and Unwin release of the Lord of the Rings. Tolkien heaped praise upon Baynes' work, saying, 'They are more than illustrations, they are a collateral theme. I showed them to my friends whose polite comment was that they reduced my text to a commentary on the drawings.' (more details)
'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit...' -J.R.R.T.
This is the first U.S. edition of the iconic 1971 poster map of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth drawn by Pauline Baynes to promote The Hobbit. Tolkien heaped praise upon Baynes' work, saying, 'They are more than illustrations, they are a collateral theme. I showed them to my friends, whose polite comment was that they reduced my text to a commentary on the drawings.' (more details)
Earliest obtainable printing of the iconic Hobbit map.
This is the English 'George Allen and Unwin' first trade printing of the iconic 1971 poster map of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle Earth drawn by Pauline Baynes to promote The Hobbit. It is the earliest obtainable iteration of the map, with notably superior production quality and printing over all subsequent editions. Tolkien heaped praise upon Baynes' work, saying, 'They are more than illustrations, they are a collateral theme. I showed them to my friends whose polite comment was that they reduced my text to a commentary on the drawings.' (more details)
'I don’t think it extravagant to say that in this map Miss Baynes proves that she can paint as well as Lewis could write.' - Walter Hooper (friend of Lewis)
A very attractive example of the rare 1972 Pauline Baynes' promotional poster map of C. S. Lewis' fantasy world Narnia, the setting for the 8-volume Chronicles of Narnia. Although published nearly 20 years after C. S. Lewis' death, this map offers the first representation of Narnia as a comprehensive whole. It is based directly on Bayne's collaboration with C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963) from the early proof editions of the novels in the 1950s, through his death. Although Baynes and Lewis never became close, as she did with J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), she illustrated his work both before and after his death. (more details)
Iconic Tolkien promotional poster map.
This is the 1978 edition of the iconic 1970 poster map of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle Earth drawn by Pauline Diana Baynes to promote the George, Allen and Unwin release of the Lord of the Rings. Tolkien heaped praise upon Baynes' work, saying 'They are more than illustrations, they are a collateral theme. I showed them to my friends whose polite comment was that they reduced my text to a commentary on the drawings.' (more details)