BECKFORD, PETER. Thoughts upon Hunting. In a Series of Familiar Letters to a Friend...A New Edition, Sarum [Salisbury] and London 1782, green morocco gilt, turn-ins gilt, g.e., spine slightly darkened, lacking half-title, occasional foxing, Second edition, frontispiece and 2 engraved plates, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH 53 ENGRAVED PLATES. Souhart 40. Bookplates of H. Gallice and Marcel Jeanson (sale, Sotheby's Monaco, 1 March 1987, lot 53); [Another copy], later mottled calf gilt, g.e., joints cracked, extremities rubbed; Thoughts on Hunting, 1781, slight discoloration to plates and title, FIRST EDITION, half-title, frontispiece, two engraved plates. Mellon/Podeschi 64; Schwerdt I, 56. Moncure Biddle, bookplate; [Another copy], upper cover detached, half-title and frontispiece loose, title and plates foxed. Robert Drummond, bookplate, both in contemporary calf, the first rebacked; Thoughts upon Hare and Fox Hunting, 1796, marginal foxing, 20 engraved plates; Familiar Letters from Italy, 1805-6, 2 vols., the 3 vols. uniformly bound in modern quarter calf, spines gilt, morocco lettering-pieces; Thoughts...[Another edition], [London] 1810, modern quarter vellum, morocco lettering-pieces, some foxing, engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title, engraved plates; all but the last Salisbury and London, together 7 works in 8 vols. (8)

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BECKFORD, PETER. Thoughts upon Hunting. In a Series of Familiar Letters to a Friend...A New Edition, Sarum [Salisbury] and London 1782, green morocco gilt, turn-ins gilt, g.e., spine slightly darkened, lacking half-title, occasional foxing, Second edition, frontispiece and 2 engraved plates, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH 53 ENGRAVED PLATES. Souhart 40. Bookplates of H. Gallice and Marcel Jeanson (sale, Sotheby's Monaco, 1 March 1987, lot 53); [Another copy], later mottled calf gilt, g.e., joints cracked, extremities rubbed; Thoughts on Hunting, 1781, slight discoloration to plates and title, FIRST EDITION, half-title, frontispiece, two engraved plates. Mellon/Podeschi 64; Schwerdt I, 56. Moncure Biddle, bookplate; [Another copy], upper cover detached, half-title and frontispiece loose, title and plates foxed. Robert Drummond, bookplate, both in contemporary calf, the first rebacked; Thoughts upon Hare and Fox Hunting, 1796, marginal foxing, 20 engraved plates; Familiar Letters from Italy, 1805-6, 2 vols., the 3 vols. uniformly bound in modern quarter calf, spines gilt, morocco lettering-pieces; Thoughts...[Another edition], [London] 1810, modern quarter vellum, morocco lettering-pieces, some foxing, engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title, engraved plates; all but the last Salisbury and London, together 7 works in 8 vols. (8)