Lot Essay
Schwerdt finds the plates 'unusually attractive', but says the shooting appears 'to have been very wild'.
Details
Rawstorne (Lawrence): Gamonia; or, The Art of Preserving Game, 8vo, Rudolph Ackermann, 1737 [Abbey Life 392; Schwerdt II p. 127], 15 hand-coloured aquatint plates by J.T. Rawlins, original green morocco, gilt (neatly rebacked with old spine laid down), g.e.