Fairley, Rob (Ed.). Blackburn’s Birds. The Bird paintings of Jemima Blackburn.
1st. Ed. Pub. Canongate. 1993 pp.112 with colour illus. throughout. 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw. From the library of ornithologist, artist, illustrator, author and editor Robert Gillmor MBE with notes and two letters loosely inserted.
The letters are from Dr. J.T.R. Sharrock, managing editor of the journal ‘British Birds’. The first is a request for a review of ‘Blackburn’s Birds’ and the second noting that Gillmor had agreed to contributing the review, as requested (both dated January 1994). The two pages of hand-written notes are Robert Gillmor’s delightful early drafts, indicating his ways of working, for the review, possibly first and second / final.
£75.00 [ref: 65048]
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Fennessy, Rena & Brown, Leslie. Birds of the African Waterside.
1st. Pub. Collins. 1979 Lavishly illustrated with 24 full-page colour paintings, pencil sketches and supporting text. A thoroughly very good copy in sl. spine-faded dw.
£12.00 [ref: 42054]
Ford, A. (Ed.). The Bird Biographies of John James Audubon.
1st. Ed. Pub. Macmillan Co. 1957 pp.xv, 282 with colour plates. 8vo. Bookplate. Thor. vg. hardback in chipped dw., with some loss.
The editor Alice Ford has selected, arranged and edited eighty of Aududon’s most interesting and characteristic bird biographies. Accompanying the text are twelve examples of plates from the Audubon collection at Harvard University that have never been reproduced before.
£15.00 [ref: 46278]
Fox, Dr. D.G. (Comp.). Artist Falconers. The Falconry & Raptor Art of David Morrison Reid-Henry & Ron David Digby.
1st. Ed. Pub. Coch-Y-Bonddu Books. 2017 pp.xv, 199 with colour and b/w. illus. throughout. 4to. Limited edition bookplate to half-title; copy No. 200 of 250 and signed by Dr. David Glynne Fox; title page signed by Ron Digby. Fine hardback in gently sunned nr. fine dw. Although not inscribed, from the library of ornithologist, artist, illustrator, author and editor Robert Gillmor MBE (purchased by us May 2023). Gillmor’s bookmark at p.36 which illustrates Gyrfalcon.
Dr David Glynne Fox, author of Garden of Eagles and Eagle Falconry, presents an account of the art and history of these two talented painters. David Reid-Henry, son of bird-artist George M. Henry, was already well-established as an artist and illustrator when the young Ron Digby moved with his family to live next door to him. Reid-Henry nurtured Ron's interest in birds of prey and in painting, seeing him develop into a respected falconer and a world-renowned bird-artist.
£60.00 [ref: 65023]
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Gordon-Brown, A. Christopher Webb Smith: An Artist at the Cape of Good Hope 1837-1839.
Pub. Howard Timmins, Cape Town. 1965 pp.82 with 77 reproductions, 12 full-page & coloured. Inscription on flyleaf. A very tight, clean copy, in incomplete dustwrapper.
£50.00 [ref: 16447]
Gudgeon, S. et al. The Grouse. Artists’ Impressions.
1st. Ed. Pub. Swan Hill Press. 2007 pp.151 with colour and b/w. illus. Landscape 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw.
Superbly illustrated and with accompanying text by Simon Gudgeon, Ben Hoskins, Terence Lambert, Roger McPhail, Jonathan Sainsbury, Owen Williams, Ashley Boon and Derek Robinson.
£12.50 [ref: 55022]
Harrison, J.C. Bird Portraits. A book of sketches and paintings with a commentary by the artist.
1st. Ed. Pub. Country Life. 1949 pp.119 with 16 watercolour paintings and b/w. sketches throughout. 4to. From Eric Hosking’s library with his bookplate to front pastedown. Signed by John Cyril Harrison to verso of title-page. Nr. fine hardback in vg. dw. with a little loss to top of spine.
John Cyril Harrison’s (1898-1985) talent as an artist was precocious. He spent most of his life in Norfolk. He painted in England, Scotland and Iceland and in later life he also became a regular visitor to Africa. His signature is interesting in that he developed the way he drew it from bold, distinct lettering to a more fluid style. The signature within this book is a very good example of the latter style. Eric Hosking was 'Perhaps the most famous bird photographer ever to have lived' (Gemma Padley). He was part of the New Naturalist Editorial Board and attended their first meeting in January 1943 where he would take on the role as photographic editor.
£175.00 [ref: 61648]
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Hill, D. Turner’s Birds. Bird Studies from Farnley Hall.
1st. Ed. Pub. Phaidon Press. 1988 pp.64 with colour illus. 8vo. Fine softback. From the library of ornithologist, artist, illustrator, author and editor Robert Gillmor MBE. With two letters from the journal ‘British Birds’ to Robert and Robert’s hand-written notes loosely inserted.
The book provides ‘an intriguing glimpse into the life of J.M.W. Turner. The letters are from the Dr. Sharrock, then managing editor of ‘British Birds’; the first requesting a review of ‘Turner’s Birds’ and the second noting his agreement to write the review. The notes comprise of one sheet of Gillmor’s rough review notes and two pages of a more polished and quite fascinating draft.
£30.00 [ref: 65050]
Horsbrugh, P. Gamebirds and Waterfowl of Southern Africa.
Pub. Winchester Press. 1986 pp.190 with 68 colour plates. A nr. fine copy in dw. which is lightly sunned to the spine. In slip case. Limited edition to 5,026 of which this is No. 3008.
A collection of 68 water-colours by C.G. Finch-Davies, originally commissioned to illustrate Lt.-Col. Boyd Robert Horsbrugh’s 1912 volume “The Game-Birds and Water-Fowl of South Africa”.
£50.00 [ref: 39496]
Hume, R. Birds. An Artists View. Selected Paintings by Terance James Bond.
Pub. Parkgate Books. 1997 pp.192 with colour plates and sketches throughout. Large 4to. Near fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
Presents a thorough portfolio of Terance James Bond paintings, complemented with informed text from Rob Hume.
£20.00 [ref: 49761]