EDWARDS, Lionel (1878-1966, illustrator) -- R.C. LYLE. Royal Newmarket. London: Putnam & Co., 1945. 4° (282 x 229mm). Half-title, 10 coloured plates, including frontispiece, illustrations, many full-page, all by Lionel Edwards, with an original pencil drawing by Lionel Edwards loosely inserted in a green card slipcase. Contemporary green half morocco gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (spine and a little of the sides sunfaded, very lightly rubbed).
FIRST EDITION, WITH AN ORIGINAL PENCIL DRAWING BY LIONEL EDWARDS entitled "Palace Street. Nell Gwynne's House in Background". The plate is included in the book opposite p.18. With two further books illustrated by Edwards, Huntsmen Past and Present (London, 1929), LIMITED EDITION, NO. 4 OF 150 COPIES, SIGNED BY EDWARDS and E.T. Macdermot's The Devon and Somerset Staghounds 1907-1936 (London, 1936), LIMITED EDITION, NO. 58 OF 75, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND LIONEL EDWARDS, both finely bound. (3)
EDWARDS, Lionel (1878-1966, illustrator) -- R.C. LYLE. Royal Newmarket. London: Putnam & Co., 1945. 4° (282 x 229mm). Half-title, 10 coloured plates, including frontispiece, illustrations, many full-page, all by Lionel Edwards, with an original pencil drawing by Lionel Edwards loosely inserted in a green card slipcase. Contemporary green half morocco gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (spine and a little of the sides sunfaded, very lightly rubbed).
FIRST EDITION, WITH AN ORIGINAL PENCIL DRAWING BY LIONEL EDWARDS entitled "Palace Street. Nell Gwynne's House in Background". The plate is included in the book opposite p.18. With two further books illustrated by Edwards, Huntsmen Past and Present (London, 1929), LIMITED EDITION, NO. 4 OF 150 COPIES, SIGNED BY EDWARDS and E.T. Macdermot's The Devon and Somerset Staghounds 1907-1936 (London, 1936), LIMITED EDITION, NO. 58 OF 75, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND LIONEL EDWARDS, both finely bound. (3)
