![OSBALDISTON, William Augustus. The British Sportsman, or, Nobleman, Gentleman, and Farmer's Dictionary of Recreation and Amusement, London: J. Stead, [1792]. 4° (262 x 215mm.). 42 hand-coloured engraved plates by Dodd. (Some spotting and staining.) 19th-century red half morocco gilt, spine gilt in compartments, top edges gilt (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Thomas Wilkinson (early signature on recto of frontispiece). FIRST EDITION of a general sporting dictionary. Brunet IV, 248 (note); Huth p.58; Lowndes 1735; Schwerdt II, p.54.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2003/CSK/2003_CSK_09590_0106_000(054410).jpg?w=1)
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OSBALDISTON, William Augustus. The British Sportsman, or, Nobleman, Gentleman, and Farmer's Dictionary of Recreation and Amusement, London: J. Stead, [1792]. 4° (262 x 215mm.). 42 hand-coloured engraved plates by Dodd. (Some spotting and staining.) 19th-century red half morocco gilt, spine gilt in compartments, top edges gilt (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Thomas Wilkinson (early signature on recto of frontispiece). FIRST EDITION of a general sporting dictionary. Brunet IV, 248 (note); Huth p.58; Lowndes 1735; Schwerdt II, p.54.
With 6 other books of sporting interest including William Scrope's The Art of Deer Stalking (London, 1839), John Colquhoun's The Moor and the Loch (Edinburgh, 1840), Memoirs of the Life of John Mytton ... Third Edition (London, 1851) and William Scrope's Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed ... second edition (London, 1854), all attractively bound in morocco or calf gilt. (7)
With 6 other books of sporting interest including William Scrope's The Art of Deer Stalking (London, 1839), John Colquhoun's The Moor and the Loch (Edinburgh, 1840), Memoirs of the Life of John Mytton ... Third Edition (London, 1851) and William Scrope's Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed ... second edition (London, 1854), all attractively bound in morocco or calf gilt. (7)
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