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Reviews (13)
24 Oct, 2019
This set is much smaller sized than expected.
Nice set of five books but they are so little. The books are each approx 7" x 5" x 1/2" only. Aside from that, the bindings are nice, the paper and printing quality is good and there are lots of illustrations in here I haven't seen elsewhere!
09 Jan, 2019
Interesting Archival Book.
Nice book, lots of lovely colour illustrations. Good size, large but not too large to read comfortably. Recommend!
06 Feb, 2019
A Beautiful Book telling a sometimes sad story
This book is well laid out. If I wished, which I don't, to frame one of the mostly delightful Thorburn illustrations there are no two illustrations back to back so they are all like separate plates. John Southern's descriptions of each painting and is appreciation of the artist are informative and interesting. The book is beautifully bound and printed. For its 21st century readership, some of the pictures depicting man's cruelty in shooting and mortally wounding deer and other wildlife, and never finding them again, leaving them to die later on in agony, are disturbing, but Thorburn was painting the reality of rural British (mostly Scottish) life in his era. It puts me in mind of today's trophy hunter brigade. Still, I suppose these kind of glory hunters still exist. To Thorburn's memory Southern tells us "In his early years to the Scottish deer forests, he carried and used a gun, until one day he was greatly distressed at wounding a hare and, hearing it's cry, he never shot again". Thorburn seems to have been a gentle, reserved man who lived out his life quietly, drawing, sketching and gardening until his death in 1935. I highly recommend this book to all.