Heather Standring (born 1928) is a British illustrator.
Standring was born in Olveston, Gloucestershire in 1928. [1] She trained at London's Central School of Arts and Crafts. [1]
She designed book dust jackets for Brian Moore's Judith Hearne , and Kay Dick's Solitaire. [1] And for Wolf Mankowitz's Laugh Till You Cry, Donald Windham's The Warm Country and Ernest Frost's The Visitants. [1]
Standring taught illustration part-time for many years at Maidstone College of Art. [1]
A hardcover, hard cover, or hardback book is one bound with rigid protective covers. It has a flexible, sewn spine which allows the book to lie flat on a surface when opened. Modern hardcovers may have the pages glued onto the spine in much the same way as paperbacks. Following the ISBN sequence numbers, books of this type may be identified by the abbreviation Hbk.
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Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, or simply Wisden, colloquially the Bible of Cricket, is a cricket reference book published annually in the United Kingdom. The description "bible of cricket" was first used in the 1930s by Alec Waugh in a review for the London Mercury. In October 2013, an all-time Test World XI was announced to mark the 150th anniversary of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.
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Standring is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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