Holiday Gilbert, Signed (2 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. Holiday, Gilbert (illustrator). First Edition. Children's Horse Story. A modern version of the Midnight Steeplechase, the first on record was in 1839. Frontis is a Colour Illustration of a horse plunging into water. 6 other full page B&W Plates. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper above a gift inscription dated 1932. Red cloth cover with yellow lettering to front and spine. Top page edges Red. Spine slightly faded. Nice copy of a thrilling Horse story. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Some slight toning. Fine. Watercolor and grisaille on paper, signed in pencil lower right. 1 vols. 11-1/2 x 9 inches. Watercolor sketch of gauchos, with the central figure riding a white horse on the turn, dropping a lasso over the head of a dark horse with white blaze. For an unidentified magazine commission. Gilbert Holiday (1879-1937) artist, soldier, and keen horseman, was a prolific illustrator for The Graphic, Tatler, and the Illustrated London News, and a talented artist of the sporting life. Mitchell, Dictionary of British Equestrian Artists, pp. 270-271, "one of the outstanding artists of the twentieth century" Watercolor and grisaille on paper, signed in pencil lower right. 1 vols. 11-1/2 x 9 inches. Signed.