[WILLIAMSON, Thomas Henry, and John Heaviside CLARK]. Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes... With a Supplement of New South Wales. London: H.R Young 1819.

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[WILLIAMSON, Thomas Henry, and John Heaviside CLARK]. Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes... With a Supplement of New South Wales. London: H.R Young 1819.

2° (324 x 226mm). 110 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Dubourg after Howitt, Atkinson, Clark, Manskirch and others. (Some marginal soiling, slight spotting on 20 plates, title-page and some pages with offset from facing plates.) Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, elaborately tooled in gilt and blind, g.e. (scuffed, corners rubbed, rebacked retaining original backstrip).

"The color plates in this work, especially those drawn by Howitt, are fine, both as regards draughtsmanship and coloring" (Schwerdt I, p.177); Abbey Travel I.3.

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