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WILLIAM SCROPE
The Art of Deer-Stalking ... with some account of the nature and habits of red deer ... A new edition. London: John Murray, 1839. 8vo, half-title, engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title, and 11 plates. (Light staining in upper margin at beginning and end, a few light spots.) Calf gilt by Hayday, gilt edges (extremities rubbed, in particular along joints). Provenance: Edwin Slater, Manchester (blindstamp on endpaper). Schwerdt II, 155.
SURTEES, R.S. The Analysis of the Hunting Field. London: Ackermann, 1846. 8vo, half-title, additional hand-coloured engraved title and 6 hand-coloured engraved plates, text-illustrations, 4pp. of publisher's ads at end. (Light scattered spotting to text.) Publisher's green cloth, gilt hunting trophies on upper cover, gilt edges (spine lightly faded, lower cover very lightly soiled). Provenance: C.F.G.R. SCHWERDT (bookplate). FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. This copy is in first issue green cloth but with cancel preface dated 1847; plates 3 & 4 with imprint dated 'Nov.r 9th', not 'Nov.r 19th'. Schwerdt II 232 (describing this copy as 'The first issue of the first edition'); Tooley 470. With 2 other works, including John Cook's Observations on Fox-Hunting (London, 1826). (4)
The Art of Deer-Stalking ... with some account of the nature and habits of red deer ... A new edition. London: John Murray, 1839. 8vo, half-title, engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title, and 11 plates. (Light staining in upper margin at beginning and end, a few light spots.) Calf gilt by Hayday, gilt edges (extremities rubbed, in particular along joints). Provenance: Edwin Slater, Manchester (blindstamp on endpaper). Schwerdt II, 155.
SURTEES, R.S. The Analysis of the Hunting Field. London: Ackermann, 1846. 8vo, half-title, additional hand-coloured engraved title and 6 hand-coloured engraved plates, text-illustrations, 4pp. of publisher's ads at end. (Light scattered spotting to text.) Publisher's green cloth, gilt hunting trophies on upper cover, gilt edges (spine lightly faded, lower cover very lightly soiled). Provenance: C.F.G.R. SCHWERDT (bookplate). FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. This copy is in first issue green cloth but with cancel preface dated 1847; plates 3 & 4 with imprint dated 'Nov.r 9th', not 'Nov.r 19th'. Schwerdt II 232 (describing this copy as 'The first issue of the first edition'); Tooley 470. With 2 other works, including John Cook's Observations on Fox-Hunting (London, 1826). (4)