The Animaliers, A Collector's Guide to the Animal Sculptors of the 19th and 20th Centuries

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1973. FINE condition in a VERY GOOD+ Dust Jacket. The DJ would also be FINE but for some light surface scratches on its rear panel. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NOT price clipped ($11.50). NOT a library discard. A bright, clean, square, tight copy. Brief gift note on the endpaper. Inner hinges are perfect. "First Edition" is so stated on the copyright page. 7.75" wide by 10" This is a study of animal sculptures and sculptors of the 19th and 20th centuries. Illustrated with some 150 photos, several in full color. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original black boards, lettered in shiny gold on the spine. From the Dust Jacket: "The scope of this book is the rise of the Animalier school of sculpture in the early nineteenth century, from its beginnings under Barye, Fremiet and the Bonheurs and its spread to other countries including the United States... not only... the French School, but... developments in other countries right up to the present day... with emphasis on the distinctive wildlife of the vanishing prairie and the 'cowboys and Indians' theme explored by Remington and Elwell and continued to this day in the bronzes of Harry Jackson... The book [explores] such artists as Bugatti, Pomon and Gaudier-Brzeska... interesting developments in Germany... and ends with a detailed survey of the revival of interest in animal sculpture which flourishes at the present day... The detailed appendices list all the recorded bronzes of the more important sculptors." Keywords: Bugatti. Degas. Fratin. Isidore.. First Edition (so stated). Oversize Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Good+ dust jacket. 160pp.