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[APPERLEY, Charles James] ('Nimrod'). The Life of a Sportsman. London: Wright and Co. for Rudolph Ackermann, 1842.
8° (240 x 155mm.). 10 pp. publisher's advertisments at back, hand-coloured aquatint additional title and 35 plates (34 by Henry Alken), 4 mounted (as called for) with printed title and imprint on mounts (small section of surface of p.26 adhering to verso of facing plate). Original blue cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, g.e., modern cloth box. Provenance: John Dunn Gardner of Chatteris House, Cambridgeshire (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. A FINE COPY. Schwerdt I.p.36; Tooley 65; Ray 46.
8° (240 x 155mm.). 10 pp. publisher's advertisments at back, hand-coloured aquatint additional title and 35 plates (34 by Henry Alken), 4 mounted (as called for) with printed title and imprint on mounts (small section of surface of p.26 adhering to verso of facing plate). Original blue cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, g.e., modern cloth box. Provenance: John Dunn Gardner of Chatteris House, Cambridgeshire (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. A FINE COPY. Schwerdt I.p.36; Tooley 65; Ray 46.