BOWLS

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Wood engraving entitled 'Bowl players' [sometimes called 'Bowls Players'], signed by the artist ('G Raverat').

Author: 
Gwen Raverat [Gwendolen Mary Raverat [née Darwin)] (1885-1957), English artist and printmaker
Publication details: 
[1922]
£350.00

Very good. Dimensions of leaf 12 x 17 cm; dimensions of image 10 x 15 cm. Signed by Raverat in pencil in the bottom right-hand corner, and with the title 'Bowl [sic] players' by her in pencil at bottom left. Striking and evocative image showing five working men, on a village green at dusk, gathered around a sixth figure who is measuring the distance between two bowls. Selborne/Newman 109.

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1 Autograph Card Signed; 1 Typed Letter Signed. Both to 'Mr Wilson'.

Author: 
W. H. Shelford
Publication details: 
Card, 1 August 1929, on letterhead 'Horncastle, | Sharpthorne, | East Grinstead, | Sussex.'; letter, 27 December 1930, on letterhead 'HORNCASTLE, | SHARPTHORNE, | SUSSEX.'
£45.00

On 1 June 1935 Shelford bowled the first jack at the opening of West Hoathly Bowls Club. The card, dimensions roughly 4 inches by 5 inches, is 2 pages. The letter, 2 pages, 4to. Both somewhat grubby but in good condition. The card thanks Wilson for sending a copy of Francis Hackett's 'Henry VIII'. 'I dipped into it in the train this morning & it so <?> me that I had to skim my newspaper'. The letter begins with some Christmas chitchat, before discussing a lecture given by Shelford, a copy of which he encloses (not present).

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