Portrait Drawings

LONDON: COUNTRY LIFE, 1949 Oatmeal Buckram Cloth boards with gilt blocked titles to spine and front, 290 x 225 mm approx. All edges of book block stained red, Un paginated [viii] + 40 plates as called for. First Edition 1949, signed by Peter Scott in blue ink to half title. Please see our images of the actual book offered… Read more about this item

Country Life,. Hardback. Signed by Peter Scott to the half title page. 40 portraits by naturalist Peter Scott. Includes portraits of his then wife Elizabeth Jane Howard, as well as fellow writers like Gavin Maxwell and well known figures such as Princess Margaret and actor James Robertson Justice. Peter Scott was the son of the explorer… Read more about this item

Country Life Ltd., 1949. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1949. First Edition. Unpaginated. Signed by the author. Dust jacket over beige cloth. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Flatsigned by the author to half title page. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with mild thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable foxing to… Read more about this item

London: Country Life, 1949. Book. Good Minus. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 3 pages of text, 40 b/w plates. Ex-library, covers and one plate a little solied. Signed by artist on half-title page..

Country Life, 1949-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. Signed. Signed by Scott on half title. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Tears to dust jacket, minor soiling. Clean, unmarked pages. 1 unnumbered pages, 40 plates, 30 cm. *Autographed by artist.*

Country Life Limited, London, 1949. First edition. SIGNED. Has become scarce with the artist's full signature to half title page. Fine and bright oatmeal boards with gilt lettering in very good illustrated dustjacket with just trifle loss on top of spine. Otherwise, the original dustjacket has stayed remarkable. Beautifully illustrated and quite portraits throughout

Country Life, London., 1949. First edition. Quarto. Three-page Preface by Lord Kennet of the Dene followed by forty plates of portraits of the artist's friend and family as well as such luminaries as Princess Margaret, James Robertson Justice, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Gavin Maxwell, Robert Fordyce Aickman et al.Signed by the artist on the half-title page.Fine in very good, price-clipped… Read more about this item