Author:
ALKEN H., BARENGER J., MARSHALL J., DIGHTON B.
Title:
The Sporting Repository containing Horse Racing, Hunting, Coursing, Shooting, Archery, Trotting and Tandem Matches, Cocking, Pedestrianism, Pugilism, Anecdotes on Sporting Subjects
Price:
£185.00
Year:
1904
Edition:
1st thus Edn,
Publisher:
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co Ltd
Summary:
x 478 pages, illustrated with 22 hand-coloured plates all edges gilt, a limited edition of 500 copies. Bound by Bayntun (Riviere) Bath in a full red calf with gilt double frames to the boards with sporting motif corner pieces, the spine in 5 compartments with central sporting vignettes within gilt decorative boarders and leather title label. Light rubbing to spine edges with cracking to top 4cm of the upper spine edge. Sporting Repository was originally published as a magazine in 1822 and quite rare and was important for its fine colour plates. The plates are reproduced and coloured by hand, includes plates on Partridge Shooting Grouse Shooting, Gamekeepers, poachers, Greyhounds.
Ref:
22536
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