Munnings, Sir Alfred James (1878-1959, artist) and Sir Lionel Arthur Lindsay (1874-1961) Pictures of Horses and English Life, London and New York: Eyr
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Munnings, Sir Alfred James (1878-1959, artist) and Sir Lionel Arthur Lindsay (1874-1961) Pictures of Horses and English Life, London and New York: Eyre and Spottiswoode Limited, 1927. 4to (345 x 255mm),coloured and plain plates, colour plates interleaved with tissue guards printed with titles, top edge gilt, others uncut. (Occasional light spotting, mainly to guards, slight offsetting of cutting onto half-title.) Original vellum boards gilt (lightly marked). FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 210 OF 250 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, WITH A PENCIL SKETCH ON A MENU CARD BY THE ARTIST, signed and dated Paris, 1926, tipped onto the flyleaf. With 3 newspaper cuttings about Munnings pasted onto free endpapers and flyleaf; the lot including a signed manuscript letter from Munnings to the Australian architect Bertrand James Waterhouse (who was the owner of this volume); a typescript speech given by Waterhouse on Munnings in 1937; a typescript hunting ballad by Munnings titled 'The Tale of Anthony Bell', and various press cuttings