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WILLIAMSON, Thomas (Captain) & Samuel HOWETT. Oriental Field Sports. London: William Bulmer and Co. for Edward Orme, 1807 [text watermarked 1803-5, most plates watermarked 1816-18]
Oblong 2° (425 x 535mm.). Coloured vignette additional title (reapaired at inner margin), 41 hand-coloured aquatint plates (neat repairs to 5 plates, two of these laid down with the tears into the image area, all but five plates with imprints removed, some with slight surface damage to image). Later russia with printed upper wrappers from two original parts laid down on covers, g.e. (extemities chipped).
The text and plates 9, 11, 15, 31 and 40 appear to be from the first edition (plate 31 has the first issue title), the remaining plates with the late watermarks are from the 1819 'second edition'. See Abbey Travel 427.
Oblong 2° (425 x 535mm.). Coloured vignette additional title (reapaired at inner margin), 41 hand-coloured aquatint plates (neat repairs to 5 plates, two of these laid down with the tears into the image area, all but five plates with imprints removed, some with slight surface damage to image). Later russia with printed upper wrappers from two original parts laid down on covers, g.e. (extemities chipped).
The text and plates 9, 11, 15, 31 and 40 appear to be from the first edition (plate 31 has the first issue title), the remaining plates with the late watermarks are from the 1819 'second edition'. See Abbey Travel 427.