Gordon Home — Yorkshire: Coast and Moorland

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1904 . First edition. Cloth. A signed Edition de Luxe of Gordon Home's profusely illustrated work on Yorkshire, illustrated throughout. Number eighty-two of two-hundred copies of this Edition de Luxe produced, signed by the author himself.Illustrated with thirty-two colour plates, and with a folding map to the rear. Collated, complete.Gordon Home was an English landscape artist, writer and illustrator, mainly working in watercolour and pen and ink. Home worked for several years as an art editor at The Tatler, The King and later at the publishing house A & C Black with whom this book is published.Whilst Home was born in London, this book demonstrates his love of Yorkshire and depicts a variety of the coast and moorland scenes in the county, with accompanying text also written by Home. With two armorial bookplates to the front pastedown, including that of W. Clafton, and with a former owner's inscription to the front free endpaper.A delightful limited edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with discolouration to back strip. Light marks to rear board. Bookplates to front pastedown, and inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound, but with frontispiece detached and loosely inserted. Pages clean and bright. Good . Ill.: Gordon Home. Good .