Bartholomew Fair Bartholomew Fair The Bartholomew Fair was one of London's pre-eminent summer Charter fairs. A charter for the fair was granted to Rahere by Henry I to fund the Priory of St Bartholomew; and from 1133 to 1855 it took place each year on 24 August within the precincts of the Priory at West Smithfield, outside Aldersgate of the City of London. The fair continued, after the Dissolution within the Liberty of the parish of St Bartholomew-the-Great. The site of Bartholomew Fair was the south-east side of Smithfield roundabout and was originally a cloth fair. Originally chartered as a three-day event,
John Held Jr. wife Zelda, F. Scott Fitzgerald hired Held to illustrate his book covers, after taking a liking to his cartoon style. This represented the stylistic shift of the period from realism to abstraction which influenced the Art-Deco style of the decade. Held's first cover for Fitzgerald was a companion book of short stories for "The Beautiful and the Damned", and he subsequently illustrated "Tales of the Jazz Age" (1922) and "The Vegetable" (1923). Held also designed the cover for Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "So Big." In addition to his archetypical flapper illustrations, Held also made linocuts and drew cartoons in a 19th-century