I bought the book because I loved the images and it wasn't until ten or so years later that Bud explained to me who Rountree was and showed me the books he'd collected. At left is one of the 18 plates in The Dolomites and a perfect example of why you should just buy the books you like and not worry about what you know about the illustrator or how good of an investment you're making. Buy from the heart and you'll always be happy with your purchases. Sometimes you get a book through the mail and it doesn't touch your heart. We understand that feeling and are happy to take any purchase back within two weeks of your receipt.
Images can be magic or they can be just there .
An avid golfer, he teamed up with Bernard Darwin on text to play through the links in England, Ireland and Scotland. A treasure that sells in the many thousands of dollars to golf aficionados, this 1988 Storey reprint will have to suffice for we Rountree appreciators. Most of his color work was in watercolour and as you can see from the samples here, they need no adjectives from me. The frontispiece to Caesar , at left, was done in 1930 and has a haunting power reminiscent of some of Frazetta 's work. Active through most of his career in magazines, especially those for children, Rountree created thousands of illustrations of an uncompromising quality.