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London: Benton Street Books in association with The Wildlife Art Gallery, 2004. Book. Illus. by Eric Ennion. New. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. pp. 141, colour frontispiece and numerous colour plates and illustrations superbly printed by Healeys of Ipswich, suffolk. One Man's Birds focuses on Eric Ennion's life and work in the 1930's. This is one of three books edited by Bob Walthew. Dust jacket fine, not price-clipped. Hardback binding, fine. [Eric Arnold Roberts Ennion 1900 - 1981 A British artist, writer, illustrator, and radio presenter, specialising in birds and other natural history subjects. Born 7th June 1900 at Kettering in Northamptonshire, the son of a country doctor. In 1904 the family moved to Burwell on the edge of the Cambridgeshire fens where, after studying medicine at Caius College and St Mary's Hospital, he joined his father's practice in 1926.He held his first London one-man show of sporting pictures at the Greatorex Galleries in 1937. At the end of the war… Read More

Suffolk: Wildlife Art Gallery, 2004. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. *Signed 1st Edition* Wildlife Art Gallery, , 2004. 4to, pp144. Profusely illustrated throughout in colour. Hardcover with dust jacket. DJ in very good/near fine condition. Brown cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine in near fine condition. Inside near fine. Inscribed on FFE paper "Susan Ennion for Hugh Ennion" underneath signed by Sheila Hurst and Juliet Ahamedwho are all warmly thanked in acknowledgments to rear of book. usan Ennion for Hugh Ennion" signed by Sheila Hurst and Juliet Ahamed. Contents in near fine condition. The sketches contained in this book are reproduced alongside a selection of his evocative writings from the period: in search of birds in the Cambridgeshire fens, Breckland, North Norfolk, in the wildest parts of Britain and in the Netherlands and Iceland. Published to coincide with the Eric Ennion studio exhibition at The Wildlife Art Gallery in November 2004. A lovely copy of this rare… Read More