Cecil Beaton. The Authorised Biography

Hugo Vickers.

Weidenfeld and Nicolson. London. 1985. First edition. Hardback, octavo; black cloth-bound boards, dust jacket. xxx, 656 pages. 32 hors texte black-and-white plates, some line drawings illustrated within the text. English. 240 x 165mm. 1.2kg. 9780297784050. Near fine, in near fine dust jacket; slight shelf wear, no inscriptions, not price-clipped.

In the final year of his life Cecil Beaton chose a young Hugo Vickers to write his official biography. Vickers spent five years with Beaton's diaries, letters, scrapbooks and friends. The result is the definitive biography of the artist, examining his complex life story and his multi-faceted work.