![[APPERLEY, Charles James.] The Life of a Sportsman. By Nimrod. London: Rudolph Ackermann, Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 1842. 4° (235 x 150mm). Ten pages of adverts. Hand-coloured aquatint additional title, frontispiece and 34 plates, all by Henry Alken, four of these plates on india and mounted on leaves with printed captions. (Occasional minor spotting and minor soiling, a few imprints just shaved by the binder.) Full blue morocco by Sawyer, spine gilt in compartments with sporting tools, gilt edges.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2012/CSK/2012_CSK_04354_0125_000(apperley_charles_james_the_life_of_a_sportsman_by_nimrod_london_rudolp010428).jpg?w=1)
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[APPERLEY, Charles James.] The Life of a Sportsman. By Nimrod. London: Rudolph Ackermann, Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 1842. 4° (235 x 150mm). Ten pages of adverts. Hand-coloured aquatint additional title, frontispiece and 34 plates, all by Henry Alken, four of these plates on india and mounted on leaves with printed captions. (Occasional minor spotting and minor soiling, a few imprints just shaved by the binder.) Full blue morocco by Sawyer, spine gilt in compartments with sporting tools, gilt edges.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Apperley's hero, Frank Raby, has been described as 'an idealised portrait of himself as he would have been if provided with the income proper to a natural-born Meltonian' (Aubrey Noakes, The World of Henry Alken, 1952, p. 61). Dixon 111; Mellon/Podeschi 167; Schwerdt I, p.36; Tooley 65.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Apperley's hero, Frank Raby, has been described as 'an idealised portrait of himself as he would have been if provided with the income proper to a natural-born Meltonian' (Aubrey Noakes, The World of Henry Alken, 1952, p. 61). Dixon 111; Mellon/Podeschi 167; Schwerdt I, p.36; Tooley 65.