Campbell (Barbara Mary, 'Cam', 1913-1984). Collection of original artwork, c.1945-50. Comprising 33 watercolours (nearly all with strong outlining in pen and ink, a few with pencil only), of which 26 mounted and 7 mounted, framed and glazed, various dimensions, portrait and landscape, mainly 245 x 180 mm or 165 x 270 mm and similar, together with a related 'Cam' exhibition catalogue (20 leaves, each separately laminated, bound in original black plastic folder with title 'Written and Drawn by Cam, Barbara Campbell, 1913-84' to front, priced descriptions, illustrated with mounted colour reproductions throughout), together with 3 manuscript drafts for the short story 'Tuppence & Co', presumably in Campbell's holograph (9, 8 and 7 pp.), many of the mounted pictures in clear plastic bags with priced exhibition labels (qty: a carton) A delightful archive of original illustrations by a highly competent postwar children's author, replete with anthropomorphic frogs, rabbits and monkeys, and a gang of mischievous King Charles spaniels (the latter from the author's work Tuppence & Co., which appears to be unpublished). 'Barbara Mary Campbell spent her childhood in London and Jersey. She studied at Clapham School of Art, St Martin's School of Art, and [the] Central School of Arts and Crafts. Her first book, Barbara Lamb, about a lamb who [becomes] an opera singer, was written and drawn as a diversion ... while in the Land Army ... John Lane The Bodley Head commissioned her to write six more: Buttercup Fairy (1945), Margaret Field-mouse (1946), Timothy Tabbycat (1947), Belinda Bear (1948), Bill Frog (1950), and Bill Frog to the Rescue (1951). Then, published by Collins, came: Three Jolly Fishermen (1952), Three Jolly Clowns (1952), and Three Jolly Mountaineers (1954), the adventures of three cats' (introduction to the exhibition catalogue, included with the lot).