RARE FROST PORTFOLIO, IN THE BOX
The Day's Shooting. Six Pictures Reproduced in Full Colors. Subjects: Gun Shy; Good Luck; Bad Luck; Ordered Off; Smoking Him Out; "We've Got Him"
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 153-157 Fifth Avenue, 1903.
Price: $10,000.00
About the item
First edition. Color lithography by the Grigard Lithography Co., N.Y. Tipped onto card mounts. 1 vols. Folio (19 x 24 inches). Original publisher’s printed illustrated box. Some losses to sides. Plates very fine. Custom green cloth folding box with a leather label on upper cover. Reed, pp. 77-78 (“a most difficult set to put together”), 99; illustrated at pp. 90-94. Not in Van Winkle sale. Not in OCLC.
Item #311415
Classic American outdoor scenes, with a touch of humor characteristic of the work of A.B. Frost (1851-1928). His 1895 series of twelve Shooting Pictures is justly celebrated as the finest nineteenth century American shooting art. This superb series of six color reproductions of Frost’s late shooting paintings, The Day’s Shooting, was published by Scribner’s, “comparable in quality but slightly smaller than the 1895 set” (Reed, who calls it A Day’s Shooting); the images were also reproduced in small format in the magazine for October 1903.
In 1890 Frost and his wife “purchased a 120-acre estate at Convent Station near Morristown, New Jersey, which with characteristic humor was named ‘Moneysunk.’ He had always loved outdoor life, especially hunting, rowing, and fishing, but now he took up sports that were new in the United States: golf and bicycling. All these activities became a part of his portfolio of subjects to illustrate; his drawings were the unglamorized record of the ideas and manners of country folk” — ANB.
An amazing survival, the present set had been in a drawer for 110 years.
