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The Sporting Repository, containing Horse-Racing, Hunting, Coursing...Pugilism. Anecdotes on Sporting Subjects...and a Great Variety of Miscellaneous Articles. London: for Thomas McLean, 1822.
Volume I, nos 1-6 (all published), 8° (231 x 148mm). 18 engraved and one lithographed plates after Alken (15) and J. Barenger (4) by G. & T. Hunt, the lithographed plate by J. Lahee, all hand-coloured, some finished by hand. (A few plates a little loose, a few spots and stains.) Contemporary red half roan (slightly worn), in cloth folder and slipcase (spine stained).
FIRST and only edition of a scarce and short-lived magazine (Vol.I, nos.1-6, January to June 1822). Schwerdt II, p.212 'a rare and valuable magazine'.
Volume I, nos 1-6 (all published), 8° (231 x 148mm). 18 engraved and one lithographed plates after Alken (15) and J. Barenger (4) by G. & T. Hunt, the lithographed plate by J. Lahee, all hand-coloured, some finished by hand. (A few plates a little loose, a few spots and stains.) Contemporary red half roan (slightly worn), in cloth folder and slipcase (spine stained).
FIRST and only edition of a scarce and short-lived magazine (Vol.I, nos.1-6, January to June 1822). Schwerdt II, p.212 'a rare and valuable magazine'.
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