The Sporting Repository: Anecdotes On Sporting Subjects
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Add to basketSold by The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since 7 January 2008
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Add to basket2 volume set Volume 1: [233] pp. Volume 2: [244] pp. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd. 1904 First Edition This edition on hand-made paper is limited to 50 copies, of which this is No 5. Ex-libris F. Ambrose Clark (signed) w/ velum spines 12 1/4" x 9" Two-volume deluxe vellum edition of: 'The Sporting Repository' containing chapters on: Horse Racing/ Hunting/ Coursing/ Shooting/ Archery/ Trotting and Tandem Matches/ Cocking/ Pedestrianism/ & Pugilism Copy #5 printed on hand-made paper in the 'Subscriber's Edition' limited to only 50 copies Illustrated throughout vols I & II with superb hand-coloured plates with tissue guards present by the leading 19th century English sporting artists of the day: (16) by Henry Alken/ (2) J. Barenger/ (2) Dighton/ & (2) Ben Marshall Furthermore, with pristine, museum-worthy provenance: The F. Ambrose Clark Collection He was a world-class equestrian, race & steeplechase horse owner, philanthropist & heir to The Singer Sewing Machine fortune. His set is both elegantly fountain-tipped signed @ the head of FFEP as well as with his armorial ex-libris (1907) bookplate depicting a fox in pursuit by 'FTC' affixed The glorious vellum gilt embossed spine is accented in a pearl grey cloth board. This is truly a connoisseur's 'presentation' set worthy of the finest 'country gentleman' sporting library then. Illustrated by H. Alken/ J. Barenger/ B. Marshall/ Dighton Frederick Ambrose Clark (August 1, 1880 February 26, 1964) was an American heir and equestrian. Early life "Brose" Clark was born on August 1, 1880 in Cooperstown, New York. He was the third son of Alfred Corning Clark (1844 1896) and Elizabeth (née Scriven) Clark (1848 1909). His siblings were Edward Severin Clark, Robert Sterling Clark, and Stephen Carlton Clark. He grew up in New York City and Cooperstown, New York. After his father's death in 1896, his mother remarried to Henry Codman Potter, the Episcopal bishop of New York from 1887 until his death in 1908. His paternal grandfather was Singer Sewing Machine Company partner Edward Cabot Clark, who died in 1882, leaving an estate estimated between $25,000,000 (equivalent to $662,327,586 today) and $50,000,000 (equivalent to $1,324,655,172 today). Two year old Brose, his mother, and three brothers, all each inherited $250,000 (equivalent to $6,623,276 today). His maternal grandmother, Caroline (née Jordan) Clark, was the daughter of Ambrose L. Jordan, a New York State Senator who served as the New York State Attorney General. Equestrian interests Referred popularly and with affection as "Brose," he never attended college and "had no taste for business." He did, however, pour himself into his passion for all things equestrian. He was a gentleman rider who owned, bred and trained horses for steeplechase, polo, flat racing, driving, show jumping, and fox hunting. He was considered the quintessential equestrian, sportsman and was linked with horses throughout his life until his ailing heath in 1963 marked the disbanding of his horse stables after 60 years of racing the light blue and yellow silks. Clark looked to be a man who stepped right out of a 19th-century sporting print. He was almost always seen in a tweed English cap, waistcoat, breeches and tall boots throughout his life in person and in captured images. He was master of hounds for the Meadow Brook Hounds in the 1920s, which annually held a well-attended steeplechase race meeting on his property in Old Westbury, starting in 1919. Always the consummate horseman with a disdain for automobiles, famously Brose would not allow NBC radio to drive their equipment truck onto the estate to broadcast the races. Rather they had to use a team of horses to haul the equipment in. In 1904, the then twenty-four year old Clark was painted by American painter Robert Henri. In 1958, he privately published a limited catalog of his sporting paintings: The F. Ambrose Clark Collection of Sporting Paintings which included select works by artists Sir Alfre.
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