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The Life of a sportsman. By Nimrod.

Stock Code 88705

London, Rudolph Ackermann, Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 1842

Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00
Original price £1,500.00
£1,500.00
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Current price £1,500.00
The premier 19th-century colour plate sporting book. First edition, first issue, in the original cloth, 'considered by many to be the premier colour plate sporting book in the 19th century' (Tooley).

First edition, first issue, 8vo, viii, 402pp., ten pages of ads at end, hand-coloured aquatint additional 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.
Provenance

Provenance: James George Robarts (bookplate, signature dated 15 November 1845); Hermann Marx (bookplate).

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The Life of a sportsman. By Nimrod.

ALKEN, Henry (illustrator); APPERLEY, Charles James.

Stock code: 88705

£1,500.00

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