A selection of modern cards published by Stamp Publicity (Worthing) Ltd, W Sussex showing humorous illustrations of the Laws of Cricket by Chas Crombie (c 1907).
Cover of book published by MCC ->
Charles Exeter Devereux Crombie (1880-1967) was an editorial cartoonist.
Crombie was the third son of Scots architect James Crombie and his wife Bridget Philadelphia Vince. Born at Dumfries, Scotland, Charles grew up in the 1880s and 1890s in Lambeth, Surrey, his father being partner in the London architectural practice Byrne & Crombie. By 1901 he was working as a sculptor and artist, from his family home at 25 Rumsey Road, Lambeth.
Crombie specialised in cartoons and publication illustrations. His collection of humorous postcard cartoons "The Rules of Golf" was published by Perrier in 1906, and rapidly became a best-selling series. Other similar sporting themes (including "The Laws of Cricket” shown here) followed with equal commercial success.
Crombie continued to produce illustrations for
books and magazines in the UK and US throughout the 1920s and 1930s, including
the Dodd Mead edition of W. M. Thackeray's Vanity Fair (New York City, 1924).
He illustrated 11 of P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves short stories published in The
Strand Magazine between 1926 and 1930.
Charles Crombie died in Hitchin, Hertfordshire aged 86 in 1960.
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