The Battle Ground Of The Eights The Thames The Isis The Cam.
Drawn & Etched by R. Farren 1884.
Cambridge Macmillan And Bowes.
Oblong folio, etched titlepage and nine etched plates, plates c.145 x 200mm. Edition limited to 200 copies. Binding scuffed and frayed with odd water stain. Plates good, faint evidence of foxing.
Includes attractive views on the Thames at Chiswick and Putney, punting on The Isis, and fishing on The Cam. The decorative titlepage with attractive vignette of a swallow and reeds signed in pencil by the artist, who has also captioned each plate in pencil. Robert Farren rarely signed his work. He lived and worked in Cambridge where he owned a print business.
[Ref: 7427] £380.00
Cambridge Macmillan And Bowes.
Oblong folio, etched titlepage and nine etched plates, plates c.145 x 200mm. Edition limited to 200 copies. Binding scuffed and frayed with odd water stain. Plates good, faint evidence of foxing.
Includes attractive views on the Thames at Chiswick and Putney, punting on The Isis, and fishing on The Cam. The decorative titlepage with attractive vignette of a swallow and reeds signed in pencil by the artist, who has also captioned each plate in pencil. Robert Farren rarely signed his work. He lived and worked in Cambridge where he owned a print business.
[Ref: 7427] £380.00