I’m one of many Miroslav Sasek admirers and I am trying to build my own collection of his series of illustrated childrens travel books. Each book gives a charming introduction to various cities of the world from a child’s point of view; what a great assignment.

The ‘This Is..’ series was originally printed in the late 1950s and into the 60s but you can easily pick up copies of the recent re-editions that Universe have published; I thought I would share a few snippets from ‘This is London’ with you. ‘Delicious’ is the word I keep thinking when viewing these illustrations!

I just love his loose ink washes combined with fine linear detail. He observes patterns, textures and characters beautifully and it’s clear that this illustrator is in his element when painting architecture. Mr Sasek is no longer with us, if my maths are correct he died in 1979.