Lot 215: Thelwell, Norman. Thelwell's Sporting Prints. Methuen, 1980. First Edition (DJ)

A landscape format volume of humorous sporting illustrations by Norman Thelwell, published by Methuen, London. The work comprises a collection of full-colour plates and smaller vignettes depicting satirical scenes of British field sports, with a primary focus on angling and shooting. Specific titled prints include Brothers of the Angle, The Compleat Tangler, and The glorious twelfth. Each major illustration bears the artist’s printed signature. The volume is bound in the publisher’s reddish-brown cloth boards and is housed in the original light yellow pictorial dust jacket, which features a colour illustration of a shooting party to the front panel. The title page includes a small vignette of a fisherman and the publisher’s imprint.