A Book of Sporting Painters

Sparrow, Walter Shaw

Published by John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd., 1931

About this Item

1st edition hardcover in green cloth covered boards with light surface soil and spine ends gently rubbed, tips still fairly sharp. 240pp untrimmed text is tight, age-toned yellow but not brittle, with some light foxing throughout and previous owner's gift dedication inscribed on fr endpps, but nothing that hinders the text. No dj. A companion volume of new research to British Sporting Artists and Angling in British Art. With 136 illustrations, 15 in color. Chapters on George Stubbs; Sawrey Gilpin and his Pupils, Gooch and Garrard; Tradition and the Eighteenth Century Painters; Some New Light on George C. Morland; James Ward; Sport, Art, and Agriculture; The Duality of Ben Marshall; The Alken Family Revisited; Charles Towne of Liverpool; Pollard, Chalon, Davis, and Cooper; Victorians and Photography. With an appendix of thirteen selected Wills printed verbatim. With index and list of artists 1650-1900. Seller Inventory # 49865

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Book of Sporting Painters

Publisher: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd.

Publication Date: 1931

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: First Edition.