SPARROW, Walter Shaw. Illustrated by James Orrock R.I.
Old England: Her Story Mirrored in Her Scenes.
Eveleigh Nash: London , 1908.
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Finely bound by Bayntun Bindery of W. Shaw Sparrow's Old England; elaborately illustrated by James Orrock
Finely bound example of Sparrow's illustrated work on the history and landscape of Old England. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco by Bayntun Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers.
Walter Shaw Sparrow was a Welsh writer on art and architecture with a special interest in British sporting artists. His best-known works include Women Painters of the World (1905), British Sporting Artists from Barlow to Herring (1922), and A Book of British Sporting Painters (1931). Old England: Her Story Mirrored in Her Scenes contains chapters on the English seacoast, the Church in the midst of the War, England's ancient castles, and the reign of the Sheepfolds and Sherpherds.
Old England: Her Story Mirrored in Her Scenes.
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