Remington, Frederic, A.B. Frost ,and others (illustrators) | A rare large-format work on sport in late 19th-century America

Remington, Frederic, A.B. Frost, and others (illustrators) — A.C. Gould (editor)

Sport or Fishing and Shooting. Boston: Bradlee Whidden, 1889

Folio (594 x 460 mm). 32 ff. letterpress, 15 chromolithographic plates after Frederic Remington, A.B. Frost, Fred Cozzens, R.F. Zogbaum, Henry Sandham, and others. Expertly bound to style in full dark purple straight grained morocco.

A rare large-format work on sport in late 19th-century America.

The present work includes Frederic Remington's first two published prints in color, a rare A.B. Frost image of deer-hunting, and images from Fred. S. Cozzens and other top illustrators of the day. The present work includes six angling plates (three of fly-fishing and an early depiction of tarpon fishing), four plates of game-bird hunting and five of hunting larger game. Each of the fifteen subjects is first described in general terms on a single leaf of text, followed by a second leaf giving a first-hand account of catching or shooting the subject, followed by a chromolithograph illustrating the first-hand account. According to Gould's preface, the plates are all from watercolors especially commissioned for the work which were subjected to the critical scrutiny of a group of anglers/sportsmen, who judged them for technical accuracy.

REFERENCE:

Bennett p.48; Bruns G120; Heller 1:502; Phillips 141; Sherwin sale (1946) lot 238; Tyler, Prints of the West pp.127 & 174; Wetzel p. 146