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SPORTING -- A Short Treatise on that Useful Invention called the Sportsman's Friend; or, the Farmer's Footman. Newcastle: E. Walker, [1801]. 8° (191 x 110mm). 3 wood-engraved plates by Thomas Bewick. (Frontispiece lightly offset on to title, last few leaves very lightly marked.) Original blue wrappers, uncut. Provenance: 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847-1929), Prime Minister in 1894 (yellow gilt bookplate pasted on to front wrapper). The invention was a spike attached to a halter whereby one could leave one's horse anywhere in the country without the horse wandering off. Schwerdt II, p.161.
QUIZEM, Caleb [pseud.]. Annals of Sporting, London: T. Tegg, 1809. 12° (169 x 100mm). Engraved title with hand-coloured vignette, portrait of the 'author' and 27 hand-coloured plates, one folding, by Rowlandson after Bunbury and Woodward. (Some show-through and offsetting.) Original printed boards, paper label on spine, uncut (rubbed), in red cloth folder and slipcase. Schwerdt II, p.119 and pl.93.
[GRIFFINHOOFE, Arthur, pseud.]. John Duncombe's Edition. Memoirs of the Life, Public and Private Adventures of Madame Vestris. London: J. Duncombe, [1836?]. 8° (190 x 110mm). Engraved portrait and 6 hand-coloured plates. (Some soiling and spotting.) Contemporary cloth-backed boards, uncut (rubbed); and 23 others including: Ins and outs called to an Account, or, the Wrath of John Bull, (London, 1808), H.V. Mathias' Five Weeks' Sport in the Interior of the Himalayas, (London, 1865) and Charles Persius' The Academicians of 1823; or, the Greeks of the Palais Royal, and the Clubs of St. James's, (London, 1823). These last 3 all Schwerdt copies. (26)
QUIZEM, Caleb [pseud.]. Annals of Sporting, London: T. Tegg, 1809. 12° (169 x 100mm). Engraved title with hand-coloured vignette, portrait of the 'author' and 27 hand-coloured plates, one folding, by Rowlandson after Bunbury and Woodward. (Some show-through and offsetting.) Original printed boards, paper label on spine, uncut (rubbed), in red cloth folder and slipcase. Schwerdt II, p.119 and pl.93.
[GRIFFINHOOFE, Arthur, pseud.]. John Duncombe's Edition. Memoirs of the Life, Public and Private Adventures of Madame Vestris. London: J. Duncombe, [1836?]. 8° (190 x 110mm). Engraved portrait and 6 hand-coloured plates. (Some soiling and spotting.) Contemporary cloth-backed boards, uncut (rubbed); and 23 others including: Ins and outs called to an Account, or, the Wrath of John Bull, (London, 1808), H.V. Mathias' Five Weeks' Sport in the Interior of the Himalayas, (London, 1865) and Charles Persius' The Academicians of 1823; or, the Greeks of the Palais Royal, and the Clubs of St. James's, (London, 1823). These last 3 all Schwerdt copies. (26)
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