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‎Willink’s sketches. Album with 35 photographic reproductions of Willink’s typical mountaineering sketches. ‎

‎W.M. Spooner & Co. Photographer’s and publishers (on printed paper-ticket inside 2nd. cover), n.d. (1890-1900), in-4to, photogr.-album with 35 sketches (11.5x16 cm) put on stiff bords, (30x25 cm), with captions in German / English Exibris Peter E. Obergfell, Bound in h.-leather, spine on 4 bands gilt, title gilt on frontcover. Gilt edges.‎

‎Henry George Willink was a member of the Alpine Club and vice-president [1899 -1901].He climbed in Switzerland in his early years, but particulary enjoyed walking and sketching in the Lake District and North Wales. His artistic talent was put to good use as illustrator of one of the most delightful of all mountaineering books Badminton Library volume Mountaineering edited by Clinton Dent and with contributions by W.M. Conway, D.W. Freshfield, C.E. Matthews, C. Pilkington, Sir F. Pollock, H.G. Willink and an introduction by Mr Justice Wells. ‎