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ROWLANDSON, Thomas, illustrator -- MAXWELL, Marmaduke, pseudonym. Advice to Sportsmen, Rural or Metropolitan, Noviciates or Grown Persons; with anecdotes of the most renowned shots of the day. London: Thomas Tegg, 1809.
12o (172 x 106 mm). Half-title. Hand-colored lithographed frontispiece and 15 plates after Rowlandson. Contemporary paper-backed boards, printed paper label on spine, uncut; quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: acquired from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1973.
FIRST EDITION. "An attractive book with humorous plates by the foremost caricaturist of this date. Rare in good condition, and with plates in contemporary colouring" (Schwerdt II, pp.14-15). Tooley 407.
12o (172 x 106 mm). Half-title. Hand-colored lithographed frontispiece and 15 plates after Rowlandson. Contemporary paper-backed boards, printed paper label on spine, uncut; quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: acquired from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1973.
FIRST EDITION. "An attractive book with humorous plates by the foremost caricaturist of this date. Rare in good condition, and with plates in contemporary colouring" (Schwerdt II, pp.14-15). Tooley 407.