
Luke Batterham
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A very good copy of Ford's finely illustrated work on bull-fighting in Spain. Richard Ford (1796–1858) travelled for nearly three years throughout the country in the early 1830s, whilst the illustrator Lake Price (1810–1896) toured extensively throughout Europe. Ford felt that bull-fighting "brings out the living people of Spain in all their genuine nationality; to the artist, the exhibition is singularly attractive... the pomp and circumstance of the combat, are no less picturesque than the attitudes and actions of the performers and spectators", adding that Lake Price had attended bull-fights on numerous occasions with the result that his views offer "a mirror of the bull-fight, from beginning to end" (Preface). See illustration overleaf.