Two adventures of Don Quixote, illustrated by Lawrence Josset. IN Oldebus, a Perry Colour Book devised by Powell Perry. [Farnham?: Powell Perry, 1945?] Classmark: Waddleton.c.9.455

In 1940, the Camouflage Development Training Centre at Farham Castle accommodated military officers and artists who together would design and learn new methods of concealment and deception to help prepare the country in an eventual German occupation.

It was there that, later, officer Powell Perry (from a family of printers) met artists doing their war service and decided to produce a series of illustrated children’s books, in spite of shortages.

In this number, Don Quixote is illustrated by the gifted mezzotint engraver Lawrence Josset along with pictures by Pauline Baynes (an illustrator working for C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien) who was doing her Women’s Voluntary Service at Farham Castle.

The other stories in the book and their illustrators are as follows: ‘The magic flute’ and “Mythical Monsters”, by Pauline Baynes; ‘The strange travels of Sir John Maundeville’ and ‘The marvellous tales of Baron Munchausen’, by Tom Kerr.