The Bird Paintings. Water Colours and Pencil Drawings 1969-1975. With an introduction by Peter Hansard and text by David Snow, A.H.Chisholm and M.F.Soper.

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First Edition (first printing). Elephant folio. 143pp. Quarter-cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With twenty-four magnificent full-page colour plates all hitherto unprinted - with text to each adjacent verso, and thirty-one further black and white plates and drawings in the text. A virtually fine copy in dust wrapper, chipped with just a little loss from the spine panel ends and corner tips, and with a short jagged tear to the base of the front panel-front flap fold; the whole then housed within glossy paper-covered decorated slipcase, with is just a little rubbed and marked in places. A lavishly produced selection of Ching's post- 'The Reader's Digest Book of British Birds' paintings and drawings produced in his remarkable conservative realist style. (The Reader's Digest production was Ching's first book: he was commissioned to produce 230 full colour bird portraits in under a year leaving him ill, exhausted and penniless). [A heavy item, overseas orders will incur a postage surcharge]. N° de ref. del artículo DOK0001

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