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192385307London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited 1923. First Edition. Blue cloth hardcover gilt lettering. Very Good. 29 x 23 cm. Quarto. xxii 288pp. 4 ads With 200 illustrations including 39 in color. Fading and some fraying to the spine. A few of the early pages show foxing. Some light soiling to covers. John Lane The Bodley Head Limited unknown
19231909230019London: John Lane the Bodley Head 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Bound in contemporary leather Quarto 28 cm. Bound in full navy morocco. Patterned slip case wear to extremities. Lovely gilt decorated spine compartments gilt ruled. All edges gilt. Rubbing/wear to cover. Rear board crudely reattached. Patterned end sheets. Clean unmarked pages. Reproductions of paintings by famous artists of fishing fishermen and rivers. 288 pp 2pp publishers ads. 200 illustrations including 39 in color. This is an oversized or heavy book which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. London: John Lane the Bodley Head hardcover
19232042London: John Lane: The Bodley Head 1923. Book. Illus. by Illustrated. Very Good. Gilt Lettering On Buckram. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 288pp with 2pp of publishers ads.200 illustrations including 39 in colour. A most beautiful tome. Reproductions of paintings by famous artists of fishing fishermen and rivers. Color fade to spine and some fade to edges shelfwear to back cover but all in all the buckram has a handsome patina small bump to lower corner. Firm and clean with no inscriptions. John Lane: The Bodley Head hardcover
19154046<p>In good condition clean and unmarked spine is straight and secure light wear at edges.</p> John Lane The Bodley Head hardcover
1922859B68London : John Lane The Bodley Head 1922 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 11" by 9". Various. A bright first edition copy of British Sporting Artists from Barlow to Herring with colour plates. A first edition copy. British Sporting Artists from Barlow to Herring is written by Walter Shaw Sparrow and with a foreword by Sir Theodore Cook. Some of the artist that are considered within this volume include Francis Barlow Peter Tillemans John Wootton and George Stubbs.With twenty seven colour plates and seventy-six black and white plates.Collated complete. With adverts to the rear. A wonderful exploration of sporting painting as a genre. Rebacked with the original cloth spine and boards restored. Externally very smart indeed with some marks to the rear board and fading to the spine. Internally firmly bound with generally bright and clean pages. Very Good Indeed John Lane The Bodley Head hardcover
B9789354019074Paperback / softback. New. paperback
1922deck282827BC2John Lane 1922. Hardcover. Very Good. white and gold trimmed boards signed by Sparrow 40/95 with 2 extra plates they are double page in color John Lane hardcover
1922231<p><strong>Signed Limited Edition </strong></p><p>This is Number 45 of 95</p><p><strong>First Edition</strong></p><p>Copyright 1922</p><p><strong>SIGNED</strong> and <strong>Numbered</strong> by the Author on a special tipped-in sheet</p><p>On hand-made paper with 2 extra color double-page plates</p><p>John Lane The Bodley Head Limited – London</p><p>Charles Scribner's Sons – New York</p><p>249 numbered pages</p><p>Approx. size 9.5" X 11.5" X 2.5"</p><p>Book Very Good – not ex-library; some pages with light soiling/toning; light fading to spine lettering see photo</p><p>Extremely rare with beautiful plates – very collectible</p><p>Please review all photos which are a part of the description and listing.</p> John Lane The Bodley Head Limited / Charles Scribner’s Sons hardcover
1922GEN18-B-15London : John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd 1922. First edition. Cloth. Good. 11.5" x 9". None. A detailed work reviewing the lives and works of many artists who have studied English country life and sport mainly associated with hunting and racing. First edition. "With a Foreword by Sir Theodore Cook and Twenty-Seven Illustrations in Colour and Seventy-Six in Black & White." Covering a large time span; from Francis Barlow in the reign of Charles I and ending with J. F. Herring and the younger Wolstenholme. As the subject is Art in its relations with Sport and Sport in its patronage of Art this long period is particularly interesting because its changes and improvements mark a continuous evolution unbroken by revolutionary fashions and their reactions. Rebacked in green cloth gilt title to the spine and gilt embossed picture of a horse and rider to the front board. Externally boards are sound with only some light wear to the extremities. Rubbing to the spine with chipping and very minor loss. Internally firmly bound and bright throughout although with light background foxing throughout. Good John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd hardcover
1330498062.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0260716006.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
52156London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & co 1910. Limited edition hardback. Folio 40cm by 29cm xiii. 157pp. 20 colour plates and 17 collotype plates but please note that this book lacks the two original etchings. Rebound in quarter green morocco retaining the original green cloth boards. This copy was formerly in the library of Birmingham School of Arts & Crafts with occasional stamps and labels the boards are somewhat rubbed and there is some light scattered foxing. Overall the book is in good condition but please note that the two etchings are lacking. Limited to 160 copies of which this is copy number 138. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & co, 1910. hardcover
1929mon0000974653Cassell And Company Ltd 1929. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Pages clean some foxing no markings. Complete with numerous illustrations. Cassell And Company Ltd hardcover
1929632M17London: Cassell and Company Ltd. 1929. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 11.5" by 9". George Stubbs; Ben Marshall. A first edition copy of Walter Shaw Sparrow's fascinating study of the life and works of the renowned English sporting and animal painters George Stubbs and Ben Marshall. Walter Shaw Sparrow was a notable Welsh writer on art and architecture with a special interest in British sporting artists. Collated complete with four plates in colour and eighty two 'subjects' in black and white. Complete with the scarce original unclipped dustwrapper. This copy was the second volume of the series 'The Sport of Our Fathers'. With an introduction by E. D. Cuming This copy contains a loosely inserted leaflet for the George Stubbs exhibition at the Tate Gallery 18 October 1984- 6 January 1985. In the publisher's original cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally minor shelfwear to extremities and head and tail of spine. Fading to spine. Dustwrapper chipped and bumped to extremities. Fading to spine of wrap and extremities of boards. Small closed tear to lower extremity of front wrap and upper extremity of rear wrap. Tear and small loss to head of front joint of wrap. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with light scattered spots to the occasional page. Very Good Cassell and Company, Ltd. hardcover
1927215093London: Williams and Norgate 1927. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 55p. An oversize white cloth hardcover book; covers soiled and corners bumped. Griswold Lollard stamp on front endpaper; no other ownership markings. SIGNED BY THE EDITOR and numbered 112 of 250 copies. Smudges at top of title page otherwise text clean and binding tight. Illustrated throughout with many of Alken's works. With Eight Plates in Color and Sixty-four Subjects in Half-tone. Edited by Theodore Cook. The Sport of Our Fathers series Volume I. A study of the sport illustrator Henry Alken. Williams and Norgate hardcover
1927665L27London: Williams and Norgate 1927-1929. First edition. Fine Binding. Near Fine. 11.5" by 9". Various. A finely bound work containing the first and second volumes of Walter Shaw Sparrow's biographical studies of these renowned sports illustrators Henry Alken George Stubbs and Ben Marshall. In a sumptuous half morocco binding with cloth covered boards. Comprising of 'Henry Alken' 1927 and 'George Stubbs and Ben Marshall' 1929 which together form ' The Sport of Our Fathers'. With an introduction to 'Henry Alken' by Sir Theodore Cook and an introduction to 'George Stubbs and Ben Marshall' by E D Cuming. First editions of both works. Both volumes are illustrated with nine coloured plates to the first volume and four coloured plates to the second volume. Several half-tone illustrations to both works. Collated complete. Walter Shaw Sparrow was a notable Welsh writer on art and architecture with a special interest in British sporting artists. This work looks at the lives and works of Henry Alken George Stubbs and Ben Marshall. A fascinating study with both volumes seldom found together here in a beautiful bright binding. In a half crushed morocco binding with cloth covered boards. Externally very smart with a few light marks to the cloth boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright. Scattered spots to the first and last few pages. Otherwise just the occasional light spots. Near Fine Williams and Norgate unknown
1927835P7London: Williams and Norgate LTD 1927. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 12.5" by 10.5". Henry Alken. A lavishly illustrated limited edition study on the sporting paintings of Henry Alken a signed work complete with plates in colour and monochrome. The first limited edition limited to 250 copies this copy numbered 182. Signed by Theodore Cook to the limitation page. Cook was the editor of 'The Field' and wrote the introduction to this volume.An ode to the life and work of Henry Alken.Henry Thomas Alken was a painter who is best remembered today for his many paintings of sporting subjects and coaching scenes. This wonderful work includes many examples of Alken's prolific paintings career.Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece eight colour plates and forty-eight monochrome plates.Collated complete.Written by Walter Shaw Sparrow. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally smart. Cloth is a little discoloured with some marks as is usual with a light colour cloth. Very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed Williams and Norgate, LTD hardcover
49330London: Williams and Norgate 1927. First edition hardback limited to 250 numbered copies of which this is number 148 signed by Theodore Cook who wrote the introduction on the title page. 4to 32cm by 26cm xxiv 55pp. Frontispiece 3 colour plates 36 half-tone plates. Original white cloth gilt titling to the front board and the spine top edge gilt. Small mark to the spine some rubbing of the boards contents VG. Overall this copy is in good to very good condition. London: Williams and Norgate, 1927. hardcover
0483160334.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1334262985.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0666875332.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1333820224.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1926874M29London: John Lane: The Bodley Head 1926. Cloth. Very Good. 10.5" by 8". Thomas Weaver; T. Woodward; Wildrake; et al. A profusely illustrated collection of anecdotes concerning hunting with maps and colour plates. An illustrated work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Illustrated with six colour plates sixteen plates in half-tone eight hunting maps and a further twenty-one in-text illustrations. Collated complete. A new edition of this interesting work on hound hunting in Britain comprising of memoirs of masters of hounds and notices of the crack riders and characteristics of the hunting countries of England. Edited by Walter Shaw Sparrow who also provided an introduction for this volume. Illustrated throughout after James Seymour by Thomas Weaver T. Woodward Wildrake H. Alken R.B. Davis Hancock W.P. Hodges J. Ramsay Thomas Phillips F.C. Turner John Doyle and Thomas Bewick. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally fairly smart with fading to the spine and small marks to the boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with the occasional spot and some offsetting to the end papers. Very Good John Lane: The Bodley Head hardcover
1926800J27London: John Lane the Bodley Head 1926. Cloth. Good. 10.5" by 8". Various. A heavily illustrated twentieth-century compilation on hound hunting in Great Britain edited by Welsh hunting and sporting expert Walter Shaw Sparrow. A fascinating compiled work on hound hunting in Great Britain including various stories and reminiscences of hound hunters through the eighteenth nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Edited by Welsh sporting and hunting expert Walter Shaw Sparrow.Containing six plates in colour sixteen plates in half tone eight hunting maps and twenty-one other in-text illustrations. Collated and complete. Illustration contributions are credited to the works of James Seymour Thomas Weaver T. Woodward Wildrake H. Alken R.B. Davis Hancock W.P. Hodges J. Ramsay Thomas Phillips F.C. Turner John Doyle and Thomas Bewick. Containing previous owners' ink signatures to the front pastedown and front free-endpaper. In the publisher's original green cloth binding. Externally fading to the spine joints and extremities. Some shelf wear to the boards and a small amount of loss to the tail of the front board. Previous owners' ink signatures to the front pastedown and front free-endpaper. Internally front hinge is tender but firm. Binding is firm throughout. Pages are bright and clean. Good John Lane the Bodley Head hardcover
1926821B39London : John Lane The Bodley Head 1926. Cloth. Good. 10.5" by 8". James Seymour Thomas Weaver T. Woodward Wildrake H. Alken R.B. Davis Hancock W.P. Hodges J. Ramsay Thomas Phillips F.C. Turner John Doyle and Thomas Bewick. . A new edition of this fascinating and richly illustrated compilation of hound hunting in Great Britain. A new edition of this interesting work on hound hunting in Great Britain comprising of memoirs of masters of hounds and notices of the crack riders and characteristics of the hunting countries of England. Edited and with an introduction by Walter Shaw Sparrow.Containing six colour plates sixteen plates in half-tone eight hunting maps and a further twenty-one in-text illustrations. Collate complete. With illustrations credited to James Seymour Thomas Weaver T. Woodward Wildrake H. Alken R.B. Davis Hancock W.P. Hodges J. Ramsay Thomas Phillips F.C. Turner John Doyle and Thomas Bewick In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally generally smart. The spine is faded and a little bumped and the boards are a little faded. There is a previous owner inscription to the front free endpaper. Internally firmly bound and with bright and clean pages with the occasional spot throughout. Good John Lane The Bodley Head hardcover
