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WILLIAMSON, Captain Thomas (1790-1815) and Samuel HOWITT (1765?-1822). Oriental Field Sports. London: William Bulmer and Co. for Edward Orme, 1807.
Oblong broadsheets (458 x 578 mm). Additional title pochoir-stencilled in colors (cut round and laid down), 40 hand-colored aquatint plates by H. Merke, J. Hamble, and Viveres after Howitt's drawings after Williamson, titled in English and French. (Old vertical creases to title and preliminary leaves, some light spotting, staining or offsetting, some mended marginal tears.) Contemporary brown morocco decorated in blind and gilt (rebacked, endpapers renewed, some light wear to edges).
FIRST EDITION OF "THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOOK ON INDIAN SPORT IN EXISTENCE" (Schwerdt), bound up from the 20 original parts and therefore containing "the finest impressions of the plates" (Tooley). The Abbey copy had variant numbering. This copy has complete consecutive numbering except for plates XIII and XIV where the numbering is transposed. Plate XXXI is in Tooley's presumed first issue, reading "Hunting Jackals" (and not "Jackals rescuing a hunted brother"), and the text and plates are watermarked, apart from 2 index leaves dated 1802 and 1805. This copy does not retain the slip advertising Howitt's British Field Sports, which Tooley notes is contained in part 20. Abbey Travel 427; Mellon Books on the Horse and Horsemanship 88; Nissen ZBI 4416; Schwerdt II, pp. 297-298; Tooley 508.
Oblong broadsheets (458 x 578 mm). Additional title pochoir-stencilled in colors (cut round and laid down), 40 hand-colored aquatint plates by H. Merke, J. Hamble, and Viveres after Howitt's drawings after Williamson, titled in English and French. (Old vertical creases to title and preliminary leaves, some light spotting, staining or offsetting, some mended marginal tears.) Contemporary brown morocco decorated in blind and gilt (rebacked, endpapers renewed, some light wear to edges).
FIRST EDITION OF "THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOOK ON INDIAN SPORT IN EXISTENCE" (Schwerdt), bound up from the 20 original parts and therefore containing "the finest impressions of the plates" (Tooley). The Abbey copy had variant numbering. This copy has complete consecutive numbering except for plates XIII and XIV where the numbering is transposed. Plate XXXI is in Tooley's presumed first issue, reading "Hunting Jackals" (and not "Jackals rescuing a hunted brother"), and the text and plates are watermarked, apart from 2 index leaves dated 1802 and 1805. This copy does not retain the slip advertising Howitt's British Field Sports, which Tooley notes is contained in part 20. Abbey Travel 427; Mellon Books on the Horse and Horsemanship 88; Nissen ZBI 4416; Schwerdt II, pp. 297-298; Tooley 508.