frank benson introduction malcolm salaman (1 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Frank W. Benson: "sportsman, naturalist, artist". There's 12 black and white plates of Benson's etchings tipped-in to this book, each protected with a tissue guard quite delicately printed with the title of the work that follows. The pictures are largely concerned with wild fowling. As Malcolm C. Salaman writes in his enthusiastic introduction, Benson is "for the most part concerned pictorially with the river-banks and their rushy approaches, and the expanses of water they enclose, only so far as these are related to the activity of the water-fowl that offer opportunities to his gun and his pencil. Since these opportunities, however, are very much dependent on the weather and the time of day, when a rare mood allows his vision to linger with the landscape, he looks to the sky for his pictorial motives, and finds them in the transient effects of light". The book itself is in very good condition with no markings to the text and hardly any spotting to the pages throughout. There's a small bump to the bottom right hand corner of the last three or foor pages of the book. The blue boards are all slightly bumped and rubbed at the corners and the top and bottom of the spine. The book's still well-bound. There's various other minor signs of shelfwear and handling. The only points that feel worthy of mention are that towards the top of the otherwise blank spine somebody has written BENSON in what looks like pencil - and down towards the bottom probably the same person has faintly written 6. This being volume number 6 in The Studio's Modern Masters of Etching series.