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LAURENCE RAWSTORNE
Gamonia: Or, The Art of Preserving Game. London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1837. 8vo (235 x 152mm), half-title, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and 14 hand-coloured plates by J.T. Rawlins, errata tipped-in at end. (Occasional light spotting or browning, very light offsetting from a few plates.) Contemporary green morocco gilt, gilt edges (rebacked, extremities lightly rubbed).
FIRST EDITION of this 'esteemed book' (Schwerdt). The plates mainly depict hunting scenes. 'They are unusually attractive, and convey a good impression of the way in which our forebears killed their game, in the beginning of the 19th century.' Abbey Life 392; Schwerdt II, p.127; Tooley 393.
Gamonia: Or, The Art of Preserving Game. London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1837. 8vo (235 x 152mm), half-title, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and 14 hand-coloured plates by J.T. Rawlins, errata tipped-in at end. (Occasional light spotting or browning, very light offsetting from a few plates.) Contemporary green morocco gilt, gilt edges (rebacked, extremities lightly rubbed).
FIRST EDITION of this 'esteemed book' (Schwerdt). The plates mainly depict hunting scenes. 'They are unusually attractive, and convey a good impression of the way in which our forebears killed their game, in the beginning of the 19th century.' Abbey Life 392; Schwerdt II, p.127; Tooley 393.