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CAPTAIN THOMAS WILLIAMSON (1790-1815) and SAMUEL HOWITT (1765?-1822)
Oriental Field Sports. London: William Bulmer and Co. for Edward Orme, 1807. Oblong broadsheets (458 x 578mm). Additional title pochoir-stencilled in colours, 40 hand-coloured aquatint plates by H. Merke, J. Hamble, and Viveres after Howitt's drawings after Williamson, titled in English and French. (Old vertical creases to additional title, title, dedication leaf, and foot of plate V, some very light, generally unobtrusive, discolouration or occasional light spotting or marking, neat marginal repairs on title, text leaf l.13, and plate XXIV.) Modern red half morocco by Rivière & Son, red morocco title label mounted on upper cover lettered in gilt within a triple-fillet border, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt in 2, two original upper wrappers pochoir-stencilled in colours to parts 9 and 10 laid down on pastedowns, gilt edges (a few small marks to covers, corners lightly bumped).
FIRST EDITION OF 'THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOOK ON INDIAN SPORT IN EXISTENCE' (Schwerdt), bound up from the 20 original parts and therefore containing 'the finest impressions of the plates' (Tooley). The Abbey copy had variant numbering, with two plates numbered XVI, two numbered XVII, two numbered XVIII, and none numbered XI, XV, or XXXIII. This copy has complete consecutive numbering except for plates XIII and XIV where the numbering is transposed. Plate XXXI is in Tooley's presumed first issue, reading 'Hunting Jackals' (and not 'Jackals rescuing a hunted brother'), and the text and plates are watermarked, apart from 2 index leaves dated 1802 and 1805. This copy does not retain the slip advertising Howitt's British Field Sports, which Tooley notes is contained in part 20. Abbey Travel 427; Mellon Books on the Horse and Horsemanship 88; Nissen ZBI 4416; Schwerdt II, pp. 297-298; Tooley 508.
Oriental Field Sports. London: William Bulmer and Co. for Edward Orme, 1807. Oblong broadsheets (458 x 578mm). Additional title pochoir-stencilled in colours, 40 hand-coloured aquatint plates by H. Merke, J. Hamble, and Viveres after Howitt's drawings after Williamson, titled in English and French. (Old vertical creases to additional title, title, dedication leaf, and foot of plate V, some very light, generally unobtrusive, discolouration or occasional light spotting or marking, neat marginal repairs on title, text leaf l.13, and plate XXIV.) Modern red half morocco by Rivière & Son, red morocco title label mounted on upper cover lettered in gilt within a triple-fillet border, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt in 2, two original upper wrappers pochoir-stencilled in colours to parts 9 and 10 laid down on pastedowns, gilt edges (a few small marks to covers, corners lightly bumped).
FIRST EDITION OF 'THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOOK ON INDIAN SPORT IN EXISTENCE' (Schwerdt), bound up from the 20 original parts and therefore containing 'the finest impressions of the plates' (Tooley). The Abbey copy had variant numbering, with two plates numbered XVI, two numbered XVII, two numbered XVIII, and none numbered XI, XV, or XXXIII. This copy has complete consecutive numbering except for plates XIII and XIV where the numbering is transposed. Plate XXXI is in Tooley's presumed first issue, reading 'Hunting Jackals' (and not 'Jackals rescuing a hunted brother'), and the text and plates are watermarked, apart from 2 index leaves dated 1802 and 1805. This copy does not retain the slip advertising Howitt's British Field Sports, which Tooley notes is contained in part 20. Abbey Travel 427; Mellon Books on the Horse and Horsemanship 88; Nissen ZBI 4416; Schwerdt II, pp. 297-298; Tooley 508.
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