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THOMAS, DENIS - Edited by: : ROWLAND HILDER COUNTRY: An artist's memoir.

LONDON.THE HERBERT PRESS LTD.,1988.

ISBN 0906969743.

UK,slim rectangular Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st reprint.[Originally and first published a year earlier - this is the first reprint of that 1st edn.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn but price-clipped dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,wrap-around colour pictorial lanscape watercolour illustrated dw/dj withblack lettering to front; black,and white (possibly faded from yellow?) lettering as spine/backstrip is lightly sunned/faded,the continuation of landscape illustration to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine but for an approx. 3.5cm accidental, oblique parallel double crease/fold to front free endpaper - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - would appear unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain khaki/ tan cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate b/w landscape illustrated endpapers.UK,slim rectangular Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st reprint,7-128pp [paginated] includes a foreword by Rowland Hilder,6 chapter/sections: Time and Place, Town and Around, Banks and Braes, Four Seasons, Quiet Waters, and Pen and Pencil,with over 100 illus by Rowland Hilder with b/w+colour landscape drawings,sketches,etchings and watercolours throughout the text and book,a bibliography of books by,in collaboration and others he has illustrated.Plus [unpaginated] b/w vignetted half-title with b/w landscape illustrated frntis to its reverse,a b/w vignetted title page, similarly illustrated publication details to its reverse,and also the contents page too. A collection of the artist Rowland Hilder's work,with over 100 examples of Rowland Hilder's work,including his own choice of drawings, sketches and etchings.A companion volume to the highly successful 'Rowland Hilder's England,' This book also paints a picture of his life as a child in America,his experiences in Kent amongst the rural community and his student days at Goldsmith College. 'Rowland Hilder Country' brings together well over a hundred examples of his work,of the kind that has made him the most popular British landscape painter of his time.It includes his own choice of theme and subject covering some fifty years,from drawings,sketches and etchings to the watercolours which have put him among the modern masters of the English School. For the public at large,Rowland Hilder's distinctive treatment of the English countryside has established him as one of the most instantly recognisable of our leading painters.His attachment to nature in all its moods - but especially in winter - has endeared him to the thousands of his fellow-countrymen who share his love of the skies,fields,rivers,farms,hills and valleys of his native land.Even on his comparatively rare excursions abroad - represented here by studies from France and Venice - Hilder's inimitable approach gives a unique sense of time and place. Rowland Hilder introduces the book with his own account of his progress from sea-struck student to fully-equipped oil and watercolour painter.He tells of his early childhood in the United States; his growing up amid the numerous Hilder kinfolk in rural Kent; his student days at Goldsmith's College,where he was a contemporary of other talented young men who went on to make names for themselves; and his mastery of the art of water-colour in his middle years.His story is enlivened with sketches in pen or pencil and told in his own conversational style. With its plentiful choice of 'Helderscapes',a number of Scottish subjects,and others of his home and family circle,it will also make him even more friends and admirers than the thousands he has already. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

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