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Bury, Adrian.
Joseph Crawhall: The Man and the Artist.
Publisher: Charles Skilton Ltd, London;
Date of Publication: 1958
Stock Code: 9622
Limited edition: number 13 of only 15 copies bound in half-vellum, from a total limitation of 990. Illustrated with 7 tipped-in colour plates plus 32 Monochrome Collotype plates and 26 monochrome illustrations in text. Publishers’ half vellum and sapphire blue cloth over boards; gilt fillets to vellum edges; blue morocco spine label with gilt titles and spine ornaments; ruby gilt sprinkled endpapers; gilt fore-edges. Minor rubs to extremities; a very clean, tight copy with no annotation or inscriptions. Foreword by Sir Alfred Munnings. Joseph Crawhall III (1861-1913) was a noted Northumbrian artist associated with the Glasgow Boys, who specialised in studies of animals and nature. The third artist in the family to bear the name he was by far the most successful and celebrated. £250.00