Beningfield's Woodlands.

UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. Stated First Edition.] NFINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip (£15.00) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork by Gordon Beningfield,illustrated dw/dj panels with black lettering to front and spine; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears - present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain dark green cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a dark green headband and immaculate watercolour landscape illustrated endpapers.UK,Qrto HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,10-75pp [paginated] includes 17 full-colour,full page and 28 full colour part-page illustrations; and 11 part-page with 2 full page b/w illustrations - all by Gordon Beningfield - interspersed throughout the text and the book; plus [unpaginated] colour illustrated vignetted half-title page with full colour,full page frntis illustration to recto,title page,contents list/table with full page b/w sketches to recto.
Want more Gordon BENINGFIELD titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my GENERAL or SIGNED catalogues. Britain's woodlands are cherished by everyone who loves the countryside and values its richness.Few people who have been lucky enough to see a bluebell wood in spring will forget this magical experience,and the splendour of an ancient oakwood is a truly impressive sight.Sadly,only a fraction of this country's once extensive forests,woods and coppices remain,and all too few of them are properly managed.Almost nothing has survived of the variety of crafts and industries that they once supported.But the pockets of woodland that remain harbour some of our most attractive animals and plants,as this beautiful book shows.
Gordon Beningfield has sought out some of the quiet corners where English woodland continues to flourish in all its glory,and reminds us of the delights to be found in this most precious part of our natural heritage.Here are the pollarded beeches,the old oak trees with their enormous gnarled trunks,the primroses on mossy banks and the delicate wood anemones scattered across the woodland floor.Gordon Beningfield also celebrates the wildlife of the woods: tawny owls, woodpeckers,foxes and fallow deer,and - a Beningfield speciality,this - the woodland butterflies.There is room,too,for the creatures that are not wholly wood- dwelling but depend on woodland for sustenance, cover or a place to raise their young.In this glorious collection of watercolours and sketches, all produced specially for this book, Beningfield once again delights us both with his skill as an artist and with his countryman's eye for detail.
Gordon Beningfield began his career as an eccliastical artist,but,since the early 1960's,he has built a reputation as a painter of the countryside,and his work has in recent years reached wide audiences through his appearance on television. Beningfield's first book,'Beningfield's Butterflies' - see my book ID rja577015,was published in 1978 and paved the way for the very popular 'Beningfield's Countryside' (1980) - see my book ID rja576815 and rja576915,which has appeared in 5 languages,with over 100,000 copies in print.His third book, 'Hardy Country',in 1983 was celebrated by major exhibitions in both Dorchester and London,and a film has been made about the painting of the pictures for it.He has designed two sets of stamps for the British Post office,showing butterflies (1981) and other insects (issued in 1985). Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight/value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE.
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