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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Tanager Books, Dover, NH. 1986. Hardcover. First Edition; stated First Published 1986 on the copyright page. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; bumped lower tips. DJ: Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($39.50); light bumping to lower tips and along the top edge. Gray cloth over boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. Light blue endpapers. 118 pp 4to. This biography of George Lodge will show him to be an artist of immense talent and originality. This book presents a selection of his best wood-engravings, sketches and finished paintings in a worthy celebration of his life and work. A keen sportsman and dedicated falconer, Lodge became famous for his pictures of birds of prey. His greatest strengths were the sense of atmosphere he managed to create in his art, and the detail and naturalness of his subjects and surroundings. Contains sis short chapters from different contributors on Lodge's life and work. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.