Pandaemonium

ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATIONS

Pandaemonium was a labour of love for Humphrey Jennings, a pioneering documentary film-maker described by his contemporary Lindsay Anderson as ‘the only real poet that British cinema has yet produced’. For more than a decade before his untimely death in 1950, he collected the excerpts (or in his word, ‘images’) intended for the book. His notebooks were edited by his daughter, Mary-Lou Jennings, and sociologist friend Charles Madge, who published Pandaemonium to great acclaim in 1985.

For this superlative Folio Society edition, the original 28 illustrations have been vastly expanded to over 100 images. All were chosen by Sir Christopher Frayling, one of Britain’s most eminent historians of film and popular culture. As he explains in his new introduction, only pictures available during Jennings’s lifetime have been used, from famous artworks by William Blake, J. M. W. Turner and Ford Madox Brown to ephemera, book covers, newspaper engravings, satirical prints, scientific diagrams and early photographs. The Folio edition retains the original prefaces from the author and his editors, making for the most complete and faithful realisation of Humphrey Jennings’s vision ever to appear in print.

ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATIONS

Pandaemonium was a labour of love for Humphrey Jennings, a pioneering documentary film-maker described by his contemporary Lindsay Anderson as ‘the only real poet that British cinema has yet produced’. For more than a decade before his untimely death in 1950, he collected the excerpts (or in his word, ‘images’) intended for the book. His notebooks were edited by his daughter, Mary-Lou Jennings, and sociologist friend Charles Madge, who published Pandaemonium to great acclaim in 1985.

For this superlative Folio Society edition, the original 28 illustrations have been vastly expanded to over 100 images. All were chosen by Sir Christopher Frayling, one of Britain’s most eminent historians of film and popular culture. As he explains in his new introduction, only pictures available during Jennings’s lifetime have been used, from famous artworks by William Blake, J. M. W. Turner and Ford Madox Brown to ephemera, book covers, newspaper engravings, satirical prints, scientific diagrams and early photographs. The Folio edition retains the original prefaces from the author and his editors, making for the most complete and faithful realisation of Humphrey Jennings’s vision ever to appear in print.

ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATIONS

Pandaemonium was a labour of love for Humphrey Jennings, a pioneering documentary film-maker described by his contemporary Lindsay Anderson as ‘the only real poet that British cinema has yet produced’. For more than a decade before his untimely death in 1950, he collected the excerpts (or in his word, ‘images’) intended for the book. His notebooks were edited by his daughter, Mary-Lou Jennings, and sociologist friend Charles Madge, who published Pandaemonium to great acclaim in 1985.

For this superlative Folio Society edition, the original 28 illustrations have been vastly expanded to over 100 images. All were chosen by Sir Christopher Frayling, one of Britain’s most eminent historians of film and popular culture. As he explains in his new introduction, only pictures available during Jennings’s lifetime have been used, from famous artworks by William Blake, J. M. W. Turner and Ford Madox Brown to ephemera, book covers, newspaper engravings, satirical prints, scientific diagrams and early photographs. The Folio edition retains the original prefaces from the author and his editors, making for the most complete and faithful realisation of Humphrey Jennings’s vision ever to appear in print.

ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATIONS

Pandaemonium was a labour of love for Humphrey Jennings, a pioneering documentary film-maker described by his contemporary Lindsay Anderson as ‘the only real poet that British cinema has yet produced’. For more than a decade before his untimely death in 1950, he collected the excerpts (or in his word, ‘images’) intended for the book. His notebooks were edited by his daughter, Mary-Lou Jennings, and sociologist friend Charles Madge, who published Pandaemonium to great acclaim in 1985.

For this superlative Folio Society edition, the original 28 illustrations have been vastly expanded to over 100 images. All were chosen by Sir Christopher Frayling, one of Britain’s most eminent historians of film and popular culture. As he explains in his new introduction, only pictures available during Jennings’s lifetime have been used, from famous artworks by William Blake, J. M. W. Turner and Ford Madox Brown to ephemera, book covers, newspaper engravings, satirical prints, scientific diagrams and early photographs. The Folio edition retains the original prefaces from the author and his editors, making for the most complete and faithful realisation of Humphrey Jennings’s vision ever to appear in print.

ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATIONS

Pandaemonium was a labour of love for Humphrey Jennings, a pioneering documentary film-maker described by his contemporary Lindsay Anderson as ‘the only real poet that British cinema has yet produced’. For more than a decade before his untimely death in 1950, he collected the excerpts (or in his word, ‘images’) intended for the book. His notebooks were edited by his daughter, Mary-Lou Jennings, and sociologist friend Charles Madge, who published Pandaemonium to great acclaim in 1985.

For this superlative Folio Society edition, the original 28 illustrations have been vastly expanded to over 100 images. All were chosen by Sir Christopher Frayling, one of Britain’s most eminent historians of film and popular culture. As he explains in his new introduction, only pictures available during Jennings’s lifetime have been used, from famous artworks by William Blake, J. M. W. Turner and Ford Madox Brown to ephemera, book covers, newspaper engravings, satirical prints, scientific diagrams and early photographs. The Folio edition retains the original prefaces from the author and his editors, making for the most complete and faithful realisation of Humphrey Jennings’s vision ever to appear in print.