And clouds flying : a book of wild fowl / by Ian Pitman ; with illustrations from paintings and drawings by Peter Scott.
Pitman, Ian Robert, 1909-
Category
Books
Date
1947
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Dorneywood House and Gardens, Buckinghamshire
NT 3171913
Summary
Bibliographic description
152 p., plates : ill. (2 col.) ; 26 cm. Provenance: authorial inscription to front flyleaf: 'My dear Scorts [presum. i.e. Lord Courtauld-Thomson (1865-1954)] / I would like you to have this / as a small token of my gratitude for the / trouble you took in helping me to connect up / with Peter - and that at a time when you / were none too well. Long may you continue / to grown younger each time I see you. The / only trouble is that I don't see you enough. / Ian / P.s. You needn't read it.'; half-title signed by the illustrator, with a pen and ink sketch of a goose; black ink stamp on flyleaf: The National Trust founded 1895. Binding: publisher's turquoise cloth, printed pictorial dust-jacket.
Makers and roles
Pitman, Ian Robert, 1909- Scott, Peter, 1909-1989