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HOWITT, Samuel (1765?-1822). British Preserve. London: Rodwell and Martin, 1824. 4° (304 x 240mm). Engraved title with vignette of sportsman and pointers and 36 etched plates by W.J. Huxon after Howitt, 34 plates without Huxon's name and many without Howitt's, letterpress list of plates. (Occasional very light spotting.) Original cloth, label on spine (rubbed and a little soiled, head and foot of spine and corners worn). Provenance: W.S. Bradford, ?the writer on Spain and Portugal (contemporary signature on title). FIRST EDITION. Schwerdt I, p.250 'It consists of a series of well drawn etchings of animals hunted in Great Britain'.
THORNHILL, Richard Badham. The Shooting Directory. London: Longman [and others], 1804. 4° (303 x 232mm). Half-title, 6 hand-coloured aquatints only (of 7) by Medland after Bell and West including frontispiece portrait of the author, 2 uncoloured plates on one leaf, 3 folding tables. (Lacking one coloured and one uncoloured plate, spotting, a few neat marginal tears, some light soiling at edges.) UNCUT, some leaves unopened, in original boards (some staining, worn at extremities). FIRST EDITION, first state with pp.215-20 unsuppressed. 'In the majority of copies [these pages] are cancelled out, it being evident from the text that the author had been a little too outspoken over a controversy concerning the Manton Patent Breech, that arose between Mr. Manton and the Duke of Richmond': Abbey Life, 393; Schwerdt II, pp.258-59. (2)
THORNHILL, Richard Badham. The Shooting Directory. London: Longman [and others], 1804. 4° (303 x 232mm). Half-title, 6 hand-coloured aquatints only (of 7) by Medland after Bell and West including frontispiece portrait of the author, 2 uncoloured plates on one leaf, 3 folding tables. (Lacking one coloured and one uncoloured plate, spotting, a few neat marginal tears, some light soiling at edges.) UNCUT, some leaves unopened, in original boards (some staining, worn at extremities). FIRST EDITION, first state with pp.215-20 unsuppressed. 'In the majority of copies [these pages] are cancelled out, it being evident from the text that the author had been a little too outspoken over a controversy concerning the Manton Patent Breech, that arose between Mr. Manton and the Duke of Richmond': Abbey Life, 393; Schwerdt II, pp.258-59. (2)
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