Peter J S Olney (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Limited edition of 350 copies, this being no 112 and signed by Peter J Olney, Nicely bound in blue half morrocco. Book is in excellent condition just slight foxing to fep, light wear externally. Slipcase has a few scuffs and marks and area of repair along with corner bumping.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. A fine copy of an edition limited to 350 copies of which this is Number 311. Bound in half leather over blue cloth boards and housed in a Solander box. Sixty tipped-in color plates by British army officer Major Henry Jones (1838-1921) reproduced from the original paintings bequeathed by the artist to the Zoological Society of London. Text by Peter J.S. Olney faces the plates. Oblong folio - 13½ in 17½ in.

Quarter Leather. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. In publisher's blue clothbound folding box with label (condition of this good plus). A very nice copy, excepting that plates 18, 24, 25 and 26 are missing. Signed by Olney. 0.0. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Henry Jones (illustrator). 1st Edition, Limited Edition. Large oblong Quarto (340 × 435 mm). Half navy Morocco leather and blue cloth boards. Spine with raised bands, lettered in gilt. Blue cloth solander case. 272 pp. Frontispiece and 60 full-colour plates, tipped in throughout. Appendix listing all bird paintings by Henry Jones in the possession of the Zoological Society of London. Bibliography. First edition. Limited edition of 350 numbered copies, signed by the author on the limitation page, this being number 94. Major Henry Jones (1838-1921) spent his active career as a British army officer and his retirement in pursuit of a different kind of discipline entirely. Returning to Welling, near Woolwich, in 1881, he became a regular presence in the bird room of what is now the Natural History Museum in Kensington, studying the Museum's specimen collections with the systematic attention of a naturalist rather than the casual interest of an amateur. The watercolour paintings he produced over the following decades were bequeathed at his death to the Zoological Society of London, where they remained, largely unpublished, until this monograph allowed them to be brought to the wider audience they deserved. The sixty paintings reproduced here cover the wildfowl of Britain and Europe: ducks, geese, and swans rendered with the particular accuracy of a man who had studied his subjects directly from museum specimens and, wherever possible, from living birds. The foreword is by Sir Peter Scott (1909-1989), whose presence in these pages is entirely fitting. The son of Captain Robert Falcon Scott of Antarctic fame, Sir Peter was the most distinguished ornithologist and wildfowl artist of the twentieth century: founder of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust at Slimbridge in 1946, co-founder of the World Wildlife Fund in 1961, the first person to be knighted for services to conservation, and himself a painter of wildfowl. The biographical note on Jones is by Nigel Sitwell, and the text throughout is by Peter J.S. Olney of the Zoological Society of London. Fine throughout. A pristine copy. Solander case shows only very mild shelf markings. Please note: This is a large and very heavy volume. Additional postage costs will apply. Please contact us for a shipping quote before purchase. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. JONES, Henry (1838-1921) - OLNEY, Peter J.S. - SCOTT, Sir Peter. - SITWELL, Nigel. The Wildfowl Paintings of Henry Jones. London: Threshold/Harrap, 1987. Oblong folio (13 4/8 x 17 4/8 inches). Frontispiece and 60 colour plates tipped-in. Publisher's original half blue morocco, blue cloth, gilt; preserved in original blue cloth clamshell case. AS NEW Limited edition, one of an unspecified unnumbered copies of a total edition of 350, signed by Olney and Scott. Jones was an accomplished but mostly unknown artist, who bequeathed his sketchbooks to the Zoological Society of London. After a career in the Army, mostly posted in India, Jones returned to Welling, near Woolwich in 1881 and seems to have become a habitue of the bird room at the British Museum (now of Natural History) in Kensington. "Of the many hundreds of birds which he painted, he could have seen only a limited number in the wild. Most of his likenesses were produced from skins in the Bird Room of the Natural History Museum, and it is all the more remarkable that they should have been so lifelike" (page 13). Signed by Author(s).