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BOWERS, Georgina. Leaves from a Hunting Journal. London: Chatto and Windus, 1880. Oblong 2° (270 x 367mm). Title and 20 chromolithographic plates, 2 duplicate plates tipped in. (A little spotting.) Contemporary red half morocco, title in gilt on front cover. Provenance: Ernest Terah Hooley (armorial bookplate) -- C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate; his sale, 22 May 1939, lot 240). Schwerdt IV, pp.15.
BOWERS, Georgina. Hunting in Hard Times. London: Chapman and Hall, [1889]. Oblong 2° (212 x 305mm). Title and 19 chromolithographic plates. Contemporary red half morocco, title in gilt on front cover (joints cracked). Provenance: Ernest Terah Hooldy (armorial bookplate) -- C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate; his sale, 22 May 1939, lot 239). Schwerdt IV, p.15.
BOWERS, Georgina. Across Country. London: Bradbury, Agnew and Co., [1882]. 11 parts, 8° (228 x 148). 22 coloured chromolithographic plates. (Occasional spotting.) Original pictorial wrappers, polished calf box, gilt spine. Provenance: C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate). Schwerdt II p.289; and another 9 works by Bowers including the Schwerdt copies of Fair Diana (London, 1884, in 11 parts), Mr Crop's Harriers (London, c.1880), A Month in the Midlands (London, c.1870) and Notes from a Hunting Box (London, 1873).
Georgina Bowers' career began in 1866. She concentrated mainly on hunting and romantic subjects, drawing on incidents she had witnessed and her 'own varied adventures with horse and hound'. Her work appeared regularly in 'Punch' where she became 'by far the most important lady artist who ever worked for [the magazine]' (Spielman, The History of Punch, London, 1895, pp.529-30). (12)
BOWERS, Georgina. Hunting in Hard Times. London: Chapman and Hall, [1889]. Oblong 2° (212 x 305mm). Title and 19 chromolithographic plates. Contemporary red half morocco, title in gilt on front cover (joints cracked). Provenance: Ernest Terah Hooldy (armorial bookplate) -- C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate; his sale, 22 May 1939, lot 239). Schwerdt IV, p.15.
BOWERS, Georgina. Across Country. London: Bradbury, Agnew and Co., [1882]. 11 parts, 8° (228 x 148). 22 coloured chromolithographic plates. (Occasional spotting.) Original pictorial wrappers, polished calf box, gilt spine. Provenance: C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate). Schwerdt II p.289; and another 9 works by Bowers including the Schwerdt copies of Fair Diana (London, 1884, in 11 parts), Mr Crop's Harriers (London, c.1880), A Month in the Midlands (London, c.1870) and Notes from a Hunting Box (London, 1873).
Georgina Bowers' career began in 1866. She concentrated mainly on hunting and romantic subjects, drawing on incidents she had witnessed and her 'own varied adventures with horse and hound'. Her work appeared regularly in 'Punch' where she became 'by far the most important lady artist who ever worked for [the magazine]' (Spielman, The History of Punch, London, 1895, pp.529-30). (12)
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