The Life of a sportsman. By Nimrod.
London, Rudolph Ackermann, Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 1842
First edition, first issue; 8vo, viii, 402pp.; 10pp. ads at end, additional hand-coloured aquatint title, frontispiece and 34 plates, all by Alken, four of these plates on india and mounted on leaves with printed captions, original blue cloth, the spine and upper side stamped in gilt, the sides with scrolling border stamped in blind, edges gilt, yellow coated endpapers, rebacked preserving original worn spine, rubbed, pull-off morocco box, a very good clean copy.
Dixon 111: 'one of the finest of the books illustrated by Alken'; Mellon/Podeschi 167; Schwerdt I, p.36; Tooley 65.
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