Remington, Frederic, A.B. Frost and others (illustrators)

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

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Description

Sport or Fishing and Shooting. Boston: Bradlee Whidden, 1889
paper, ink, leather

Folio (21 1/2 x 15 1/4 ins.; 545 x 383 mm). 15 chromolithographic plates after Remington, Frost, Cozzens and others. Expertly bound to style in full dark red straight grain morocco.

Literature

Bennett p.48; Tyler Prints of the West pp.127 & 174; not in Reese, Stamped with a National Character.

Catalogue Note

A rare large-format work on sport in late 19th-century America, including Frederic Remington's first two published prints in color, a rare A.B. Frost image of deer-hunting, and images from Fred. S.Cozzens and other top illustrators of the day.

The present work includes six angling plates (three of fly-fishing and an early depiction of tarpon fishing), four plates of game-bird hunting and five of hunting larger game. Each of the fifteen subjects is first described in general terms on a single leaf of text, followed by a second leaf giving a first-hand account of catching or shooting the subject, followed by a chromolithograph illustrating the first-hand account. According to Gould's preface, the plates are all from watercolors especially commissioned for the work which were subjected to the critical scrutiny of a group of anglers/sportsmen, who judged them for technical accuracy.