1904 Fifty Leaders of British Sport: A Series of Portraits

Description

Decorative Binding, First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

The first edition, first impression. 

In the publisher's decorative cloth binding. 

Collated, complete with a frontispiece and forty-nine plates of portraits.

Taken by Ernest C. Elliott of Elliott and Fry, a Victorian photography studio founded in 1863 by Joseph John Elliott (his father) and Clarence Edmund Fry.

Ernest went on to produce this work after the partnership with his father was dissolved in 1892. It is an experimental work of portraiture, in that it attempts to portray the sportsmen in their natural surroundings as best as possible during a time that often favoured simple studio photography. 

With bibliographical notes by F. G. Aflalo. 

From the library of William Cavendish-Bentinck, Sixth Duke of Portland (1857-1943), who was a British landowner, courtier and Conservative politician. He notably served as Master of the Horse between 1886 and 1892 and again between 1895 and 1905.