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Sam Bough RSA: The Rivers in Bohemia	£40.00
by Hitchon, Gil & Pat

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	Reference	S5591
	Publisher	Lewes, The Book Guild
	Year	1998
	ISBN	1857762304
	Condition	VG+/VG (?)

The total with shipping for this book within the UK would be £43.30.

1st edition hard back in dj, 278 pages. 42 colour illustrations + others in b&w throughout text.  In extremely good clean condition, brown hard covers immaculate, unclipped dj showing very mild shelf wear at edges.  This is a very nice copy of a scarce item from The Book Guild Ltd.

A definitive work on one of the 19th century's most intriguing, gifted and complex artists, who was a major figure in Scottish art, famous for his landscapes and seascapes.  When he died his passing merited a tribute from Robert Louis Stevenson (See Appendix B.)

The Hitchons' book describes Bough's 'lost' years as a theatrical scene painter, and his frequent 'run-ins' with the artistic establishment of this time.  We see a sensitive, generous man behind the bluff Bohemian mask.  Contents are listed as follows:

• Starting Out (1805 - 1844)
• Travelling Hopefully (1845 - 1855)
• Hurrying Through Life (1855 - 1866)
• Journey's End (1866 - 1878)
• All that Remains
• Bough's Biographers

Appendix A - Bough and his Art
Appendix B - Obituary by R.L. Stevenson
Appendix C - An Art Dealer's Critique (Aitken Dott & Sons, Edinburgh)
Appendix D - Major Exhibitions of Bough's Work
Select Bibliography on Art, Artists, People and Places

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