A Bird-painter's Sketch Book [ Limited Signed Drawing]
by Rickman, Philip (1891-1982)
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
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About This Item
London:: Eyre & Spottiswoode; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1931. 1st. Hardcover. 4to (12 x 9 3/4 inches). 34 plates (11 in colour). . Publisher's vellum backed blue cloth with light fading spine lettered in gilt. Light speckling to back of Frontis leaf. O#123 of 125 copies signed by the artist, with a signed pencil drawing below the frontispiece. "Ever since I can remember I have taken the greatest interest in birds ... I have frequently been asked to issue in book form a collection of my paintings and sketches together with some of my notes, which I have kept as carefully as possible. This is such a book. It contains a number of plates in pencil and colour, some being reproductions of finished pictures, others of sketches made in the open, and in one or two instances of pages extracted from sketch books..." (Preface). ; Signed by Author .
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 38022
- Title
- A Bird-painter's Sketch Book [ Limited Signed Drawing]
- Author
- Rickman, Philip (1891-1982)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Eyre & Spottiswoode; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- 1931
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