The Life of a Fox

Thomas Smith; Lord Willoughby de Broke

Verlag: Edward Arnold, London, 1920

Beschreibung

A beautifully illustrated edition of this diary of a huntsman with a collection of tales told by foxes. Featuring monochromatic illustration, and twelve colour illustrated plates by various illustrators, including Henry Thomas Alken. Alken was an English painter and engraver chiefly known as a caricaturist and illustrator of sporting subjects, as seen within this text. This copy features an introduction by Lord Willoughby de Broke. A new edition. In a cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally, a trifle rubbed with marks and tidemarks to boards. Wear to bumped corners and bumping to head and tail of spine. Loss to spine. Internally, generally firmly bound though one plate is disbound. Light foxing and handling marks to pages but plates bright and clean. Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers GEN40-G-8

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Life of a Fox

Verlag: Edward Arnold, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1920

Einband: Cloth

Illustrator: Various

Zustand: Good

Art des Buches: book