Angling in British Art Through Five Centuries: Prints, Pictures, Books

Walter Shaw Sparrow; H. T. Sheringham

Verlag: John Lane, London, 1923

Beschreibung

A smart first edition of this study of British art depicting angling through five centuries. First edition. Illustrated with two hundred images including thirty-nine colour plates, one hundred and thirty-three black-and-white plates, and twenty-eight line blocks in the text. Collated complete. A detailed work exploring the figure of the angler in British art, with chapters on watercolours, land and sea painting, language in art, as well as studies on individual artists and their sporting work. Written by Walter Shaw Sparrow, a Welsh writer on art and architecture, with a special interest in British sporting artists. With a preface by Hugh Tempest Sheringham, an English writer considered one of the greatest angling writers of his generation. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities resulting in minor fraying. Fading to the spine and edges of the boards. The odd mark to the board. Residue from library sticker to the tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Light age toning to the endpapers. Library stamps to the reverse of the title page. Bookseller's label to the front pastedown. Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 884T12

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Angling in British Art Through Five ...

Verlag: John Lane, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1923

Einband: Cloth

Illustrator: Not Stated

Zustand: Good

Auflage: First edition.

Art des Buches: book