Frank W. Benson, master of the sporting print [signed] [first edition]

Carefully protected within a clear archival dust jacket. #883 of 1,000 printed. Signed by the author. Three small pieces missing from front, back and spine of dust jacket. More than 25 black and white prints. Biography of the founder of the American sporting print genre. This is the first edition, the signed/limited first edition, not the second trade edition. An examination of the life and work of American painter Frank Weston Benson (1862-1951) , including sporting and hunting prints of geese, ducks, and game hunters. Includes two essays by Benson: "What Is an Etching?" and "Advice to Artists." Benson was a member of "The Ten", a group of 10 American painters who first exhibited together in 1898, in New York City, and continued to do so for the next 20 years. They were Frank Weston Benson, Joseph DeCamp, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Childe Hassam, Willard Metcalf, Robert Reid, Edward Simmons, Edmund Charles Tarbell, John Henry Twachtmann, and J. Alden Weir. They stopped exhibiting as a group in 1919 May require extra shipping to outside U. S. A. ; Black and white; Oversize; 95 pages; Signed by author