Estimate: | £150 - £250 |
Hammer price: | £100 |
HUNTING - Charles SIMPSON (1885-1971). The Harboro' Country. London: John Lane, 1927. 4to (290 x 235mm). Title printed in blue and black, 27 mounted coloured plates by Charles Simpson, including the 2 extra plates for this special edition, illustrations. Original buckram-backed paper boards, top edges gilt, others uncut. NUMBER 48 OF 75 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. With 10 other larger format books of related interest, namely E. A. H. Alderson's Pink and Scarlet or Hunting as a School for Soldiering (London, 1913, original buckram), Thomas Smith's Extracts from the Diary of a Huntsman ... A New Edition (New York, 1921, original cloth-backed boards), Charles Simpson's Leicestershire & its Hunts (New York, 1926, original buckram), W. A. Briscoe's The Ballad of Betsy Ann. Recollections of an Old Hunter (London, 1926, original buckram-backed boards), Walter Shaw Sparrow's Henry Alken ... Being the First Volume of the Series The Sport of Our fathers (London, 1927, plates by Henry Alken, original buckram, dust-jacket), Lionel Edwards' My Hunting Sketch Book (London, 1928, mounted coloured plates by the author, original buckram), the same author's Huntsmen Past and Present (London, 1929, mounted coloured plates by the author, original buckram), Patrick R. Chalmers' Forty Fine Ladies (London, 1929, illustrated by Cecil Aldin, original vellum-backed buckram, NUMBER 22 OF 150 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR), G. D. Armour's A Hunting Alphabet (London, 1929, mounted coloured plates by the author, original buckram) and As Hounds Ran. Four Centuries of Foxhunting ... With Forewords by John Masefield and Edgar Astley Milne (New York, Huntington Press, 1930, illustrations by Cecil Aldin and Lionel Edwards, original buckram, ONE OF 990 COPIES). (11)