David Gray "Gallops" Signed Edition with many Equestrian Illustrations
First Edition
Gray, David. Hitchcock Edition of David Gray Gallops Signed by The Derrydale Press. 1929. with many Equestrian Illustrations by Paul Brown. 3 vols. Red cloth with gilt titling on black, and gilt design on the front cover,v8vo. The Hitchcock edition” of David Gray’s sporting stories, number 159 of 750 sets signed by the author on the half-title of Gallops 1. Avid sportsman Eugene Connett, after studying the typography of Daniel Berkeley Updike, founded the famed Derrydale Press, with the intent "to reprint the very scarce early American books on sport which had become so rare that some of them would never be seen outside of a few private collections… and to produce a group of books on contemporary American sport which, because of their beauty, would be preserved instead of discarded in time." Gallops 1 first published 1897. Siegel 28; Frazier G-15-a; Biscotti, Six Centuries of Foxhunting, p. 163. Bookplate of Henry Payne McIntosh affixed to inside of front cover on all 3 volumes. ,Condition is Very Good.Item #16805
Price: $550.00
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