[MUNNINGS]. BOOTH, Stanley. Sir Alfred Munnings 1878-1959. Philip Wilson for Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications. 1978.
Large square 4to. Publisher's full red calf by Zaehnsdorf, lettered, ornamented and illustrated in gilt, all edges gilt, watered silk endpapers, cloth covered slipcase; pp. 218, [2]; illustrated throughout with 96 colour plates and a number of black and white text figures; slipcase a little worn, very light offsetting initially and at the end, otherwise very good.
First and de luxe edition, specially designed and bound by Zaehnsdorf in London, number 23 of a print run limited to 100 copies, signed by the author. 'Criticism of the artist's talent as facile and slight has not been lacking, but his splendid studies of rough cobs and gipsy lads, the superlative expertise of The Return from Ascot with the Windsor greys, his studies of heavyweight-carriers and robust foxhunters and racing two-year-olds, were to bring to equestrian art of the 20th century a brilliance of achievement not seen since the epoch of George Stubbs' (Walker, Sporting Art, pp. 189-90).
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