Dorothea Braby

Braby was born in Wandsworth and grew up in Putney, the third child of Percy Braby, a solicitor, and Maud Churton Braby, a journalist and author who had been born in China. Braby was educated at the St Felix School in Southwold, and then from 1926 to 1930 at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London. For a time she was enrolled at the Heatherley School of Fine Art and also studied art in Paris and Florence. ==Career==

Braby's work was mostly as an illustrator of books, including several volumes produced by the Golden Cockerel Press. For The Saga of Llywarch the Old, Braby created colour engravings that resembled mediaeval ivory tablets. A memorial exhibition was held at Burgh House, Hampstead, in 1988. ==Selected works==

Books illustrated by Braby included • Mr Chambers and Perephone by C.Whitfield, Golden Cockerel Press, 1937 • The Ninety-First Psalm by C.Whitfield, Golden Cockerel Press, 1944 • The Lottery Ticket by V.G.Calderon, Golden Cockerel Press, 1945 • The Mabinogion by V.G.Calderon, Golden Cockerel Press, 1948 • Gilgamesh, King of Erech by F.L. Lucas, Golden Cockerel Press, 1948 • Poems by John Keats, Folio Society, 1950 • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Golden Cockerel Press, 1952 • The Fearless Treasure by Noel Streatfeild, Joseph, 1953 • ''Lord Arthur Savile's Crime'' by Oscar Wilde, Folio Society, 1954 • The Semi-Attached Couple by Emily Eden, Folio Society, 1954 • The Saga of Llywarch the Old by Glyn Jones, Golden Cockerel Press, 1955 Braby also wrote and illustrated The Commandments, published by Lewis in 1946, and The Way of Wood Engraving, published in 1953. ==References==