Author: Somerville, E. OE
Title: Slipper's ABC of Fox Hunting (Signed)
Description: London, England, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio, 15.25 in. x 12.25 in. pp. 85. Signed and inscribed to Denis Martin by the author on front free endpaper. Illustrated with twenty full-page chromolithograph plates, by the author; printed one side only. Grey-green pictorial cloth of huntsman with three foxhounds on front ,in black, red, white, and brown. Black title to spine. Rubbing to extremiities. Scratches, small stains, and light bubbling to boards. Corners bumped. Light age-toning to pages. Hinges recently reinforced by our conservator. Drawings sharp and clean. Newer gray slipcase. Edith Anna Å’none Somerville (2 May 1858 - 8 October 1949) was an Irish novelist who habitually signed herself as "E. Å’. Somerville". The eldest of eight children, Somerville grew up in Drishane, Castletownshend, County Cork, She is said to have dominated her sister and brothers in a family where women were encouraged to be bold. She received her primary education at home, and then attended Alexandra College in Dublin. In 1884, she went to Paris for the first of several trips to study art at the Académie Colarossi and Académie Delécluse, and then spent a term at the Westminster School of Art in Dean's Yard, Westminster. At home, riding and painting were her absorbing interests. In January 1886, she met her cousin Violet Martin, and their literary partnership began the following year. In 1898 Edith Somerville went to paint at the Etaples art colony, accompanied by Violet. There they profited from their stay by conceiving together the stories later gathered in Some Experiences of an Irish R. M. completed the following year. By the time Violet died in 1915, they had published fourteen books together. (Could Denis Martin, to whom this book is inscribed, be related to Violet Martin?) Somerville was a devoted sportswoman who, in 1903, had become master of the West Carbery Foxhounds. That year she also published Slipper's ABC of Fox Hunting, an irreverent and colorful children's ABC Book with a fox-hunting theme. Good / Near Fine slipcase .
Keywords: Fox Hunting
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Title: Slipper's ABC of Fox Hunting (Signed)
Description: London, England, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio, 15.25 in. x 12.25 in. pp. 85. Signed and inscribed to Denis Martin by the author on front free endpaper. Illustrated with twenty full-page chromolithograph plates, by the author; printed one side only. Grey-green pictorial cloth of huntsman with three foxhounds on front ,in black, red, white, and brown. Black title to spine. Rubbing to extremiities. Scratches, small stains, and light bubbling to boards. Corners bumped. Light age-toning to pages. Hinges recently reinforced by our conservator. Drawings sharp and clean. Newer gray slipcase. Edith Anna Å’none Somerville (2 May 1858 - 8 October 1949) was an Irish novelist who habitually signed herself as "E. Å’. Somerville". The eldest of eight children, Somerville grew up in Drishane, Castletownshend, County Cork, She is said to have dominated her sister and brothers in a family where women were encouraged to be bold. She received her primary education at home, and then attended Alexandra College in Dublin. In 1884, she went to Paris for the first of several trips to study art at the Académie Colarossi and Académie Delécluse, and then spent a term at the Westminster School of Art in Dean's Yard, Westminster. At home, riding and painting were her absorbing interests. In January 1886, she met her cousin Violet Martin, and their literary partnership began the following year. In 1898 Edith Somerville went to paint at the Etaples art colony, accompanied by Violet. There they profited from their stay by conceiving together the stories later gathered in Some Experiences of an Irish R. M. completed the following year. By the time Violet died in 1915, they had published fourteen books together. (Could Denis Martin, to whom this book is inscribed, be related to Violet Martin?) Somerville was a devoted sportswoman who, in 1903, had become master of the West Carbery Foxhounds. That year she also published Slipper's ABC of Fox Hunting, an irreverent and colorful children's ABC Book with a fox-hunting theme. Good / Near Fine slipcase .
Keywords: Fox Hunting
Price: US$ 850.00 Seller: Aardvark Books
- Book number: 86004
- Book number: 86004
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