Aubrey Noakes — Sportsmen in a Landscape

London, Theodore Brun Limited, 1954. First edition. Leather. A very smart copy of this limited edition work on sports artists, with colour plates. First edition. Limited de Luxe edition of one hundred and fifty copies of which this is number forty-nine. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, seven colour plates, and thirty-two black-and-white plates. Collated complete. A charming study into the English sporting artists, with chapters on historical sporting pictures, rural England, and significant artists such as: Barlow, Wootton, Meynell, Stubbs, Pollard, and more. Written by Aubrey Noakes, a British writer and contributor to numerous magazines. In the original full green crushed morocco. Externally, smart with light shelf wear and minor rubbing to the extremities. The odd mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .