![[APPERLEY, Charles James.] Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton by Nimrod. London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1835. 8° (212 x 136mm). Aquatint frontispiece and 11 plates, all hand-coloured, by Alken. (Some light spotting mainly in the margins and text.) Publisher's original brown cloth, the sides panelled in blind, the upper side centred in gilt with the title within a decorative border, drab endpapers (lightly rubbed, light soiling); later red morocco backed slipcase and chemise. Provenance: Robert Fischer (small signature on endpaper) -- Robert Wayne Stilwell (bookplate).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2012/CSK/2012_CSK_04354_0122_000(apperley_charles_james_memoirs_of_the_life_of_the_late_john_mytton_by111235).jpg?w=1)
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[APPERLEY, Charles James.] Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton by Nimrod. London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1835. 8° (212 x 136mm). Aquatint frontispiece and 11 plates, all hand-coloured, by Alken. (Some light spotting mainly in the margins and text.) Publisher's original brown cloth, the sides panelled in blind, the upper side centred in gilt with the title within a decorative border, drab endpapers (lightly rubbed, light soiling); later red morocco backed slipcase and chemise. Provenance: Robert Fischer (small signature on endpaper) -- Robert Wayne Stilwell (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH; the biography, finely illustrated by Alken, of one Britain's great eccentrics. 'A most valuable and important book for the sporting life of the period, aptly described by Newton as "a biography of a real man that reads like a work of fiction"' (Tooley). The second edition was enlarged, but three of the plates appear only in this first edition. Tooley 66; Schwerdt I, p.38.
FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH; the biography, finely illustrated by Alken, of one Britain's great eccentrics. 'A most valuable and important book for the sporting life of the period, aptly described by Newton as "a biography of a real man that reads like a work of fiction"' (Tooley). The second edition was enlarged, but three of the plates appear only in this first edition. Tooley 66; Schwerdt I, p.38.