SCHWERDT, Charles Francis George Richard (d.1938). Hunting Hawking Shooting illustrated in a Catalogue of Books Manuscripts Prints and Drawings Collected by C.F.G.R. Schwerdt. London: privately printed for the Author by Waterlow & Sons Ltd., 1928-1937.

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SCHWERDT, Charles Francis George Richard (d.1938). Hunting Hawking Shooting illustrated in a Catalogue of Books Manuscripts Prints and Drawings Collected by C.F.G.R. Schwerdt. London: privately printed for the Author by Waterlow & Sons Ltd., 1928-1937.

4 volumes, 4o. Hallf-titles. Title vignettes in green and black, 382 plates including 15 double-page or folding and 111 mounted and colored. Original green half morocco gilt by Kelly & Sons of London, t.e.g. (some minor wear and fading). Provenance: Harry Worcester Smith (bookplate in vols. I-III).

LIMITED EDITION, number 217 of 300 copies. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Schwerdt in vol. IV. ONE OF THE MOST SPECTACULAR OF ALL BRITISH COLLECTION CATALOGUES. (4)

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