west derek foreword john arlott (1 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. A large, light grey cloth, hardback book with gilt title impressions on the spine. Dust jacket included, not price clipped. The book is in very good condition, normal wear and marks apply consistent with use and age. Tiny shade of fading around edges. 144 pages, all intact, all pages, text and illustrations are in really good, clean, readable order. Its a large book therefore postage may increase from listed price depending on final destination. Frontispiece: John Corbet Anderson. In the garden of his Croydon home the year before his death. First published 1990, first edition. Set in Linotron Sabon by Rowland Phototypesetting Ltd, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Originated, printed and bound by C.S. Graphics Pte Ltd Singapore. " Sketches at Lord's concentrates exclusively on the cricket lithographs of the Victorian Scholar and artist, John Corbet Anderson. These drawings, although neither large in number nor main focus of Anderson's life and work, hold a unique place in cricketing history. Drawn in the middle years of the nineteenth century, they depict the great names in the game immediately prior to the introduction of photography. In turn the text looks at Anderson, the very essence of sober and industrious Victorian man, the illustrations, with details of publications dates and original sizes, and the cricketeers, the band of contemporary players ranging from Martingell to Mynn and from Parr to Pilch. In addition the book contains important background information about the printers and publishers of the lithographs and a number of contemporary illustrations which relate to subjects in Anderson's work. But pride of place must go to the fine reproductions of the fifty odd lithographs which represent the pick of the cricketing art of John Corbet Anderson.