Lakeland Sketchbooks

This boxed set brings together five volumes of breathtaking pen-and-ink drawings of Lake District scenery by A.

Wainwright - author of the legendary pictorial guides to the Lakeland Fells.

The sketchbooks were first published in the late sixties and early seventies: the author saw them as his private rebellion against 'acceptance as art of poverty-stricken and barren inspiration and rank bad execution'.

Each sketchbook contains eighty intricate pen-and-ink drawings of Lakeland scenes.

Each drawing is accompanied by a simple map to identify the location of the viewpoint in relation to its surroundings.