Author: Lindsay, Lionel (Introduction) Title: A.J. Munnings, R.A. Pictures of Horses and English Life
Description: London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1927. Thick yellowish full vellum with beveled edges, gilt lines and title, top edge gilt, lightly marbled pastel endpapers, untrimmed. xii, 199, [1] pages illustrated frontispiece and 27 mounted color plates, 109 black and white plates called for in the contents, by title and page-number. Some are two to a page. 14.2 x 11.1" (36 x 28.2 cm) 2" (5 cm) thick. Edition limited to 250 copies signed by the artist./ Guard sheet with descriptive letterpress accompanies each plate. An exquisite copy without the customary bowing of the vellum covers. VG+ this copy being No. 12/250 of this edition and signed by Munnings on the verso Hard to imagine a finer copy, and this one has the exquisite bookplate of Hugh J. Chisholm inside the front cover. Also has a very small inked gift inscription of a subsequent owner stating it was a gift from PAB in 1995. Also has a very small tattle tape label inside the front cover at the base near the spine of "The Crossroads of Sport.
Keywords: European Artists ; Munnings, A.J. ; ;
Price: US$ 3000.00 Seller: Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
- Book number: 197963
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