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RAWSTORNE, Lawrence. Gamonia: or, The Art of preserving Game; and an improved method of making plantations and covers explained and illustrated. London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1837. 8°. Half title, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and 14 plates by Reeve, Banks and others after J.T. Rawlins, errata slip bound-in at end (light spotting mainly at beginning and end). Contemporary green morocco gilt, roll-tool borders on sides, title in gilt on spine (extremities lightly rubbed, one scuff mark on lower cover), gilt edges, preserved in a cloth slipcase. Provenance: Viscount Monsell (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'From the Author' on front blank. Gamonia is a work celebrated for its picturesque shooting scenes. 'They are unsually attractive, and convey a good impression on the way in which our forebears killed their game, in the beginning of the 19th century' (Schwerdt). Abbey Life 392; Prideaux p. 358; Schwerdt II, p. 127; Tooley 205.
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'From the Author' on front blank. Gamonia is a work celebrated for its picturesque shooting scenes. 'They are unsually attractive, and convey a good impression on the way in which our forebears killed their game, in the beginning of the 19th century' (Schwerdt). Abbey Life 392; Prideaux p. 358; Schwerdt II, p. 127; Tooley 205.
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