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SPORTING -- FIELDING, Newton (1799-1856). British Game, illustrated in Twelve Spirited Etchings. London: J. Capes and J.J. Pace, 1821. 12° (177 x 98mm). Additional engraved title and 12 plates. (Some foxing and offsetting.) Polished calf gilt probably by Rivière, original wrappers preserved. Provenance: C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate). SCHWERDT COPY. Schwerdt I, p.173.
[REAY, Henry Utrick] and Thomas BEWICK (1753-1828). A Short Treatise on that Useful Invention called the Sportsman's Friend; or, the Farmer's Footman. Newcastle: E. Walker, [1801]. 8° (189 x 112mm). 3 woodcut plates by Bewick, with the initial advertisement leaf promoting the Infirmaries of Durham and Northumberland. (First leaf lightly spotted, frontispiece lightly offset onto title.) Polished calf gilt by Rivière, top edges gilt, others uncut, original blue wrappers bound in. Provenance: C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate; his sale, 11 March 1946, lot 1978, part lot). SCHWERDT COPY. Schwerdt II, p.161; and another similarly bound, also a SCHWERDT COPY. (5)
[REAY, Henry Utrick] and Thomas BEWICK (1753-1828). A Short Treatise on that Useful Invention called the Sportsman's Friend; or, the Farmer's Footman. Newcastle: E. Walker, [1801]. 8° (189 x 112mm). 3 woodcut plates by Bewick, with the initial advertisement leaf promoting the Infirmaries of Durham and Northumberland. (First leaf lightly spotted, frontispiece lightly offset onto title.) Polished calf gilt by Rivière, top edges gilt, others uncut, original blue wrappers bound in. Provenance: C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate; his sale, 11 March 1946, lot 1978, part lot). SCHWERDT COPY. Schwerdt II, p.161; and another similarly bound, also a SCHWERDT COPY. (5)
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This lot contains two additional volumes: a 'sample book of snuff boxes 1820-1830' containing 103 small engravings apparently used as designs on snuff box lids; and a volume with some 90 examples of sporting tools used by Riviere, printed in black on 4 leaves. The estimate is increased to £1500-2000.