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W[ARBURTON], R.E. E[gerton]. Hunting songs, Ballads, &c. Chester:,J. Seacombe and London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1834. 8° (216 x 133mm). Hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece and 12 hand-coloured plates, wood-engraved title vignette and culs-de-lampe. Green morocco gilt byRivière, preserving original cloth covers, top edge gilt. Provenance: C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate; his sale, 11 March 1946, lot 2136). FIRST EDITION. Schwerdt II, p. 290: 'A charming book. Rare with all the plates in contemporary colouring'; and 3 others comprising the Schwerdt copy of Warburton's The Cheshire Hunt (Manchester, 1840), A Legend of Merrie Croxton (1858), Lays of the Belvoir Hunt (Grantham, 1866), Hunting Songs (Chester, 1834), Hunting Songs and Ballads (London, 1846), author's copy signed and dated by Warburton 1871, Three Hunting Songs, 2 copies (Chester,1855).
WICKSTEED, Charles. The Cheshire Hunt. A Song. Chester: for the publisher [John Twemlow] by T. Griffith, 1837. 4° (262 x 210mm). Hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece and one plate by W. Crane after J. Bryan. Contemporary cloth (spine worn, front inner hinges split). Provenance: C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate; his sale, 11 March 1946, lot 2148, part lot). Schwerdt II, 294: 'Very rare ... We have never heard of another copy'. (5)
WICKSTEED, Charles. The Cheshire Hunt. A Song. Chester: for the publisher [John Twemlow] by T. Griffith, 1837. 4° (262 x 210mm). Hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece and one plate by W. Crane after J. Bryan. Contemporary cloth (spine worn, front inner hinges split). Provenance: C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate; his sale, 11 March 1946, lot 2148, part lot). Schwerdt II, 294: 'Very rare ... We have never heard of another copy'. (5)
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