Marrin's Bookshop

Synopsis

With 95 colour plates.

Item Description

Folio. 12.25 x 9.75 inches. 224 pp. Bound in original green cloth, gilt, with gilt block of publisher's device on front board, in pictorial dust wrapper. Slight cracking of hinge around title page, but otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by 95 colour plates, and one black and white, with captions on opposite pages. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. In addition to field sports and fishing, the collection of prints covers boxing, fencing, archery, cricket, billiards, ice skating and coaching. Frederick Louis Wilder (1893-1993), worked for Sotheby's,1911-76 and then set up as an art dealer in his own right. (Community Collection, Agincourt, Iowa web site).