1931 A Book of Sporting Painters, A Companion Volume Of New Research to 'British Sporting Artists' and 'Angling in British Art'

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Folding Plates, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

Walter Shaw Sparrow was a notable Welsh writer on art and architecture with a special interest in British sporting artists.

Copiously illustrated throughout with fifteen colour plates and ninety-three plates in black-and-white. Collated and complete. 

Also including a folding plate of the Alken Family Tree bound in opposite page 128, not usually included in this work. 

A Book of Sporting Painters acts as a companion work to Sparrow's earlier works British Sporting Artists From Barlow to Herring and Angling in British Art Through Five Centuries. This work also includes references to a variety of artists, including the noted artist George Stubbs, best known for his work on horses.

Containing a previous owner's ink signature to the front free-endpaper.

Also containing a tipped-in, detached plate from a previous owner, with the name 'Mr William Molyneux Cohan' on it.