Edwards, Lionel

A Leicestershire Sketch Book

      - London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, and New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. Quarto, polished blue buckram cloth over beveled boards, in a dust wrapper. Pp. xv, 102. Illustrated by the author with eight full-page color plates, and 36 full-page black and white plates. Dust wrapper worn, soiled, and stained, with one-third of back panel torn away; book itself is in very good to fine condition. First Edition. A fox-hunter's delight, written and illustrated by a man who was himself an avid fox hunter. Lionel Edwards (1878-1966) was one of the most prolific of British sporting artists, and a prolific author as well. He studied under A. Cope and Frank Calderon at the School of Animal Painting in Kensington. Edwards was most at home in straight hunting sketches, and he became a favorite of the hunting fraternity, who even today find pleasure in the more than seventy books he illustrated. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]