Adam's Works on Paper ONILNE Auction Ending August 10th 2020

136 Bidding ends 10am Monday 10 th August 380 SOMERVILLE, E.O.E. & ROSS, MARTIN. Slipper’s ABC of Fox Hunting With 20 coloured full-page illustrations by the author. Lon- don, 1903. Large quarto. 88 pp. Pale grey linen, titled in black on spine; large coloured drawing and lettering in ver- million and black on upper cover. Original decorated cloth. Minor wear to spine ends. Martin Ross created the colourful language illustrations in the novels, Edith Somerville was responsible for the impres- sive artwork included in the books. Most of their works con- tained Somerville’s illustrations, displaying yet another tal- ent of these young women. Her drawings echoed the style of the writing: scenes of Anglo-Irish aristocracy, usually in an environment extremely familiar to Somerville - fox hunting. ‘Slipper’s ABC of Fox-hunting’, is a comical look at the sport she loved so much, containing twenty well-detailed draw- ings of hunting scenes accompanied by alphabetical and lyrical phrases about the sport. € 250 - 350 381 WALSH, WENDY & NELSON, CHARLES An Irish Florilegium & An Irish Florilegium II.Wild and Garden Plants of Ireland With 96 watercolour paintings by Wendy Walsh, an intro- duction by Ruth Isabel Ross and notes on the Plates by Charles Nelson. Two volumes. London, 1983/1987. First editions. Large quarto. Cloth. The first volume is signed by Wendy Walsh and the second volume by Wendy Walsh and Nelson? € 500 - 700 382 LANDOWNERS IN IRELAND Return of Owners of Land of one acre and up- wards, in the several Counties .... in Ireland Dublin: 1876. Quarto. vi, [2], 326 pp. Half red morocco € 200 - 300