And their History.
London, The Studio, 1923
Features famous sporting prints by artists such as Henry Alken; Bartolozzi, M, Egerton, T Fielding, John Harris; T Hassell; Samuel Howitt; Charles Hunt; George Hunt; John Dean Paul; James Pollard; R G Reeve; Thomas Rowlandson; George Stubbs; F.C.Turner; William Ward; William Woollett, etc. Scenes of angling, shooting, coursing, dogs, foxhunting, riding, coaching, boxing, cock fighting, bear baiting and equestrian sports.
First edition, limited to 1500 numbered copies, large 4to (32 x 26 cm). xv, 23 pp., 103 illustrations on 95 leaves, including 24 tipped-in in colour with tissue guard. Pink cloth gilt, oval illustration of a hunting dog gilt to upper cover, letters and editor's monogram gilt to spine, top edge gilt, cloth lightly stained to upper cover and faded to spine, a very good copy.
First edition, limited to 1500 numbered copies, large 4to (32 x 26 cm). xv, 23 pp., 103 illustrations on 95 leaves, including 24 tipped-in in colour with tissue guard. Pink cloth gilt, oval illustration of a hunting dog gilt to upper cover, letters and editor's monogram gilt to spine, top edge gilt, cloth lightly stained to upper cover and faded to spine, a very good copy.
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