Ripley, Aiden Lassel – SPORTING ETCHINGS – 1970 1st edition – 91 printed pages, 40 etchings – Barre, MA. – This is not an angling book, but I know many of my angling friends are also serious bird hunters. So this book is for all you wildfowling enthusiasts out there. A collection of black & white etchings, all worthy of being framed, by this premier sporting artist with commentary by Dana Lamb. Ripley along with Ogden Pleissner and William Schaldach, were the preeminent painters of sporting scenes of the twentieth century and his beautiful etchings allowing the reader to vicariously see the countryside and join in the hunt, make it easy to see why his art was so highly valued. As you can see by viewing the accompanying photos, Ripley’s etchings captures the hunter’s world at that breathless second every hunter experiences and would like to experience again. – book is very fine in very fine dust jacket. -$45.00