HODGES, W. P. [THE BEAUFORT HUNT]. A Series of Eight Plates of Fox Hunting from the Original Drawings by W. P. Hodges... Engraved by Henry Alken. London: Thomas McLean 1833. Large folio, 625 x 481 mm. (24 5/8 x 19 in.), red morocco over thick pasteboard, gilt fillet border around covers, upper cover gilt-lettered, g.e., by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, joints and extremities rubbed, tail of spine chipped, covers darkened around edges, dampstain to lower cover, dedication leaf foxed, very slight marginal soiling to first plate. Lithographed title with large hand-colored lithograph vignette of a fox, lithographed dedication leaf, 8 hand-colored aquatints, each captioned "Proof Impression" and dated July 1st 1833, printed on unwatermarked wove paper. Schwerdt I, 244; Tooley 265 ("extremely rare"). | Christie's

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HODGES, W. P. [THE BEAUFORT HUNT]. A Series of Eight Plates of Fox Hunting from the Original Drawings by W. P. Hodges... Engraved by Henry Alken. London: Thomas McLean 1833. Large folio, 625 x 481 mm. (24 5/8 x 19 in.), red morocco over thick pasteboard, gilt fillet border around covers, upper cover gilt-lettered, g.e., by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, joints and extremities rubbed, tail of spine chipped, covers darkened around edges, dampstain to lower cover, dedication leaf foxed, very slight marginal soiling to first plate. Lithographed title with large hand-colored lithograph vignette of a fox, lithographed dedication leaf, 8 hand-colored aquatints, each captioned "Proof Impression" and dated July 1st 1833, printed on unwatermarked wove paper. Schwerdt I, 244; Tooley 265 ("extremely rare").

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HODGES, W. P. [THE BEAUFORT HUNT]. A Series of Eight Plates of Fox Hunting from the Original Drawings by W. P. Hodges... Engraved by Henry Alken. London: Thomas McLean 1833. Large folio, 625 x 481 mm. (24 5/8 x 19 in.), red morocco over thick pasteboard, gilt fillet border around covers, upper cover gilt-lettered, g.e., by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, joints and extremities rubbed, tail of spine chipped, covers darkened around edges, dampstain to lower cover, dedication leaf foxed, very slight marginal soiling to first plate. Lithographed title with large hand-colored lithograph vignette of a fox, lithographed dedication leaf, 8 hand-colored aquatints, each captioned "Proof Impression" and dated July 1st 1833, printed on unwatermarked wove paper. Schwerdt I, 244; Tooley 265 ("extremely rare").