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    By Snaffles
    London   Gale & Polden, Ltd
    12.5" by 10" Unnumbered
    An excellent signed second edition of Snaffles’ collection of sketches of the sporting habits of the British in India, inscribed by the author, and in the original dust wrapper.
    By Snaffles

    1930 My Sketch Book in the Shiny

    London   Gale & Polden, Ltd
    12.5" by 10" Unnumbered
    An excellent signed second edition of Snaffles’ collection of sketches of the sporting habits of the British in India, inscribed by the author, and in the original dust wrapper.
    £360.00
    : 2kgs / : 981Z17
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    Description

    Author's Presentation Copy, Early Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed, With Dustwrapper

    The second edition.

    The author's presentation copy, inscribed by the author to the half title: “To E. H. Tomlinson from Snaffles”. 

    A work containing numerous full plate and vignette sketches of sporting life in India, including depictions of hoghunting, horses, polo and pigsticking. This is the work of Charles "Snaffles" Johnson Payne, an English painter known for his humorous work and for his outstanding draughtsmanship and depiction of the horse in action. Snaffles specialised in water colours and drawings sold as prints which, at least initially, were hand-coloured by the artist and his sisters. His subject matter was invariably military, racing or hunting and equestrian scenes, or some combination of these. Many of his most famous pictures contrast or combine military life with the peacetime pursuits of racing and hunting.

    In the publisher’s original cloth with the original, well preserved, unclipped dust wrapper. 

    Condition

    In the publisher’s original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally lovely. The wrap is very smart with fading and a closed tear to the spine, with the odd slight mark, and minor small closed tears to the extremities. Internally firmly bound with bright pages with minor spotting to the front and rear, otherwise clean, with owner’s signature and author’s inscription to the half title.

    Near Fine

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