SLIPPER'S ABC OF FOX HUNTING

Somerville, E. OE

Published by Longmans, Green, and Co, London, England, 1903

About this Item

Folio, 15.25 in. x 12.25 in., pp. 85. Illustrated with twenty full-page chromolithograph plates by the author; printed one side only. Grey-green pictorial cloth of huntsman with three foxhounds on front ,in black, red, white, and brown. Black title to spine. Rubbing to edges, with light soiling and a few scratches to the boards. Corners nudged. Unmarked interior. Hinge cracked at pp. 32/33, but threads are holding well. Light age-toning to pages. Drawings sharp and clean. Book protected in mylar. Edith Anna none Somerville (2 May 1858 8 October 1949) was anIrish novelistwho habitually signed herself as "E. . Somerville". The eldest of eight children, Somerville grew up in Drishane, Castletownshend,County Cork, She is said to have dominated her sister and brothers in a family where women were encouraged to be bold. She received her primary education at home, and then attendedAlexandra CollegeinDublin. In 1884, she went toParisfor the first of several trips to study art at theAcadémie ColarossiandAcadémie Delécluse, and then spent a term at theWestminster School of ArtinDean's Yard, Westminster. At home, riding and painting were her absorbing interests. In January 1886, she met her cousin Violet Martin, and their literary partnership began the following year.In 1898 Edith Somerville went to paint at theEtaples art colony, accompanied by Violet. There they profited from their stay by conceiving together the stories later gathered inSome Experiences of an Irish R. M., completed the following year.By the time Violet died in 1915, they had published fourteen books together. (Could Denis Martin, to whom this book is inscribed, be related to Violet Martin?) Somerville was a devoted sportswoman who, in 1903, had become master of the West Carbery Foxhounds. That year she also published Slipper's ABC of Fox Hunting, an irreverent and colorful children's ABC Book with a fox-hunting theme.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: SLIPPER'S ABC OF FOX HUNTING
• Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Co, London, England
• Publication Date: 1903
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good Plus
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Irish and Ireland