FROM COLONEL TO SUBALTERN Some Key for Horseowners

McTaggart (Lt.Col. M.F.)

Verlag: Country Life Limite, London, 1928

Beschreibung

ONE OF 12 COPIES WITH AN ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATION BY THE AUTHOR Limited edition of 150 copies, the first 12 copies contain an original illustration, this copy numbered 5, half title, original water colour illustration of horse and monkey jockey and signed "M.F McTaggart The Wag," full colour illustrations throughout, top edge gilt, others uncut, coloured frontispiece edged in gold, original pictorial vellum, blocked in gilt and brown, slightly bowed. The book is about riding and horse management, all written in a series of letters beginning Dear John. The striking illustrations with their vivid clear primary colours are taken to be by the author although in the preface he states that he suggested to the publishers that "a capable artist might supply a few suitable drawings" and that "The artist has handled his task with so light a pen and so breezy a wit that it breathes into my drab advice a spice and a vigour I never contemplated." Size: 4to. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 004956

Bibliografische Details

Titel: FROM COLONEL TO SUBALTERN Some Key for ...

Verlag: Country Life Limite, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1928

Einband: Vellum

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

Signiert: By Author & Illsutrator

Auflage: Limited First.

Art des Buches: Equestrian Art