A.B. FROST: THE AMERICAN SPORTSMAN'S ARTIST. By Henry Wysham Lanier.

(1933) 1990 Derrydale edition. Large 4to (234 x 313mm). Pp154,xvii. B/w illustrations. Gilt titles to oatmeal cloth, gilt titles to brown spine panel. Issued without a dust-wrapper.

Henry W. Lanier presents and discusses the work of A.B. Frost, sporting gun, illustrator and artist. Frost's lengthy career covered the latter half of the nineteenth century - the era immediately preceding the introduction of the motorcar, when towns and cities were more compact and the need to walk kept most of the public away from large areas of otherwise accessible marsh and wild land. Chapters include: City of Sporting Pleasures; Frost as an Active Sportsman; The Great Pigeon Shoot on Christmas Day, 1875; The man at work; The famous 'Shooting Pictures' portfolio.