Lot 236
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The Sporting Repository, containing Horse-Racing, Hunting, Coursing... Pugilism. London: for Thomas McLean, 1822. 8° (240 x 150mm). 19 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Henry Alken and James Barenger by G. and T. Hunt. (Occasional light browning, a few scattered spots, light waterstaining to upper gutter of first and last leaves.) Modern red morocco by Riviere, gilt spine. Provenance: Robert Headly (ownership inscription dated 1847).
The Sporting Repository, containing Horse-Racing, Hunting, Coursing... Pugilism. London: for Thomas McLean, 1822. 8° (240 x 150mm). 19 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Henry Alken and James Barenger by G. and T. Hunt. (Occasional light browning, a few scattered spots, light waterstaining to upper gutter of first and last leaves.) Modern red morocco by Riviere, gilt spine. Provenance: Robert Headly (ownership inscription dated 1847).

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The Sporting Repository, containing Horse-Racing, Hunting, Coursing... Pugilism. London: for Thomas McLean, 1822. 8° (240 x 150mm). 19 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Henry Alken and James Barenger by G. and T. Hunt. (Occasional light browning, a few scattered spots, light waterstaining to upper gutter of first and last leaves.) Modern red morocco by Riviere, gilt spine. Provenance: Robert Headly (ownership inscription dated 1847).

'THE FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF A RARE AND VALUABLE MAGAZINE' (Schwerdt). The present volume contains all of the numbers ever printed of this rare and important magazine. Schwerdt II, p. 212.

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