[APPERLEY, Charles James.] Sporting embellished by large engravings and vignettes illustrative of British Field Sports, from pictures painted by T. Gainsborough, E. Landseer, A. Cooper, Charles Hancock, J. F. Lewis, W. Barraud, &c. Edited by Nimrod. With literary contributions by Thomas Hood [and others], London: A. H. Baily, 1838. 2, engraved frontispiece, title and 21 plates, wood-engraved vignettes (some spotting of plate margins), old roan-backed boards (rubbed). | Christie's

Lot 86

[APPERLEY, Charles James.] Sporting embellished by large engravings and vignettes illustrative of British Field Sports, from pictures painted by T. Gainsborough, E. Landseer, A. Cooper, Charles Hancock, J. F. Lewis, W. Barraud, &c. Edited by Nimrod. With literary contributions by Thomas Hood [and others], London: A. H. Baily, 1838. 2, engraved frontispiece, title and 21 plates, wood-engraved vignettes (some spotting of plate margins), old roan-backed boards (rubbed).

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[APPERLEY, Charles James.] Sporting embellished by large engravings and vignettes illustrative of British Field Sports, from pictures painted by T. Gainsborough, E. Landseer, A. Cooper, Charles Hancock, J. F. Lewis, W. Barraud, &c. Edited by Nimrod. With literary contributions by Thomas Hood [and others], London: A. H. Baily, 1838. 2, engraved frontispiece, title and 21 plates, wood-engraved vignettes (some spotting of plate margins), old roan-backed boards (rubbed).

Includes "The Praise of Fishing" by Thomas Hood, with an engraving of "Trout fishing" by A. W. Warren after A. Cooper. Schwerdt I, p. 40; Petit 1605.

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