Harrowing Walter (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Sydney Harrowing (illustrator). This work is a collection of the author's information gained through many years of his study in archaeology as well as his travels to visit museums, ancient churches, earthworks, and searching for stone implements. This is a reprint of the 1908 edition; contains 416 pages. The book includes photographs, illustrations, and an index. This copy is clean and solid.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Sydney Harrowing; Frank Percy Smith (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of this illustrated history of North-East Surrey. First edition. Illustrated with frontispiece, thirty-one in-text images, a map, and a folding map. Collated complete. A detailed history of man in North-East Surrey, with commentary on the sequence of races in Britain, neolithic England and neolithic Surrey, burials and barrows, camps, connection, tools and implements. Written by Walter Johnson, an American historian and professor, and William Wright, an English historian. With a chapter on flint by B. C. Polkinghorne. Illustrated by Sydney Harrowing, a British artist, and Frank Percy Smith, a British naturalist and early nature documentary pioneer. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and marks to the board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Very Good. book.

Watercolour portrait; right profile, middle age, faintly signed and dated 1873. Approx. 28 x 23cm. Framed & glazed. Walter Harrowing, c.1838-1913, was a popular English artist best known for his paintings of animals, in particular horses and dogs. Portraits by Harrowing are rare and this is a beautiful posthumous painting of Dickens. PLEASE NOTE: For customers within the UK this item is subject to VAT at 20%.