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WOODWARD, William R. (1876-1953). Cherished Portraits of Thoroughbred Horses from the Collection of William Woodward With Notes by Walter Spencer Vosburgh. [New York]: Privately Printed for Ernest R. Gee [by The Derrydale Press], 1929.
2o (320 x 243 mm). 68 hand-colored photogravure plates. (Some browning throughout, a few pencil marks on list of plates and margin of one plate.) Original red crushed morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (lightly rubbed, joints starting); maroon half morocco slipcase.
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 21 copies with hand-colored plates from a total edition of 300 copies on japanese vellum. Cherished Portraits of Thoroughbred Horses reproduces 68 paintings in the collection of Woodward, by J.N. Sartorius, George Stubbs, J.F. Herring, Sr. and Harry Hall. Contracted through Ernest Gee, this was Connett's first major work in fine book production, and Woodward spared no expense. Woodward recollects, "Mr. Walter S. Vosburgh...and I were talking one day of my paintings, and I expressed the wish that he should come to see them. When he came one Sunday afternoon a few years ago, we spent an exceedingly agreeable afternoon together, for Mr. Vosburgh is so full of the lore of the Turf that every picture had its special meaning and every horse its special anecdote...I asked him if he would write sketches of the principal horses whose portraits I then had. In due course he gave me a series of sketches, written in his own hand and of a delightful nature. With his permission, they accompany the reproductions of the portraits which they supplement" (Woodward, Foreward). Frazier V-4-D; Siegel 22.
2o (320 x 243 mm). 68 hand-colored photogravure plates. (Some browning throughout, a few pencil marks on list of plates and margin of one plate.) Original red crushed morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (lightly rubbed, joints starting); maroon half morocco slipcase.
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 21 copies with hand-colored plates from a total edition of 300 copies on japanese vellum. Cherished Portraits of Thoroughbred Horses reproduces 68 paintings in the collection of Woodward, by J.N. Sartorius, George Stubbs, J.F. Herring, Sr. and Harry Hall. Contracted through Ernest Gee, this was Connett's first major work in fine book production, and Woodward spared no expense. Woodward recollects, "Mr. Walter S. Vosburgh...and I were talking one day of my paintings, and I expressed the wish that he should come to see them. When he came one Sunday afternoon a few years ago, we spent an exceedingly agreeable afternoon together, for Mr. Vosburgh is so full of the lore of the Turf that every picture had its special meaning and every horse its special anecdote...I asked him if he would write sketches of the principal horses whose portraits I then had. In due course he gave me a series of sketches, written in his own hand and of a delightful nature. With his permission, they accompany the reproductions of the portraits which they supplement" (Woodward, Foreward). Frazier V-4-D; Siegel 22.