Lynton ("Larry") LambRDI, FSRA, FSIA (15 April 1907 – 4 September 1977) was an English artist-designer, author, lithographer and illustrator who was notable for his book jacket, poster, architectural decoration and postage stamp designs.[1][2]
From 1930 he designed book jackets and bindings for the Oxford University Press and other publishers, with a break for military service during World War II when he designed camouflage. One title was Elizabeth Goudge's The Middle Window (Gerald Duckworth, 1935). In 1936 he had an exhibition of paintings at the Storran Gallery.
He designed decorations for Orient Lines ships from 1935 to 1950, exhibited works at the Festival of Britain in 1951 and designed the binding of the Bible used at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. In 1953–54 he designed the Queen Elizabeth IICastle series high-value definitive stamps issue featuring views of four castles in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland framed by an old stone wall later nicknamed the 'broken grotto'.[1] He received the International Philatelic Art Society Award for the designs in 1960. In 2005, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the stamps' issue, the Post Office re-issued the designs with new values. The Royal Mint featured the same designs on a set of silver ingots issued in 2006.
Lamb was the Author of the Inspector Charles Glover Detective stories, Death of a Dissenter, Worse Than Death, Picture Frame and Man in a Mist, published by Victor Gollancz, London, between 1969 and 1974.
