The Peregrine Sketchbook

Very Good used hardcover in dust jacket. Foxing on top edge of pages. DJ is price clipped, with minor fading. One early summer day on a routine birdwatching trip to the sea cliffs of north west Anglesey, the artist Charles Tunnicliffe came upon a nesting pair of Peregrine falcons. The sight of these magnificent birds thrilled him. For the following weeks he was to concentrate on drawing the falcons, recording their flight, their brooding and rearing of two chicks and the final departure of the family, in some of his finest sketches. This book includes all the color illustrations Tunnicliffe made when, inspired by the beauty and grandeur of his subjects, he filled his sketchbook with one marvelous painting after another. His diary of the days with the falcons is reproduced alongside the pictures.