Author: McLean,Thomas (publisher), Alken and Barenger (illustrators)
Title: THE SPORTING REPOSITORY Containing Horse-racing, Hunting, Coursing, Shooting .., Anecdotes on Sporting Subjects, interspersed with Essays, Tales, and a Great Variety of Miscellaneous Articles.
Description: London, Printed by W. Lewis for Thomas McLean, 26, Haymarket 1822 Hand-coloured aquatint plates (16 of 19) after H. Alken and J. Barenger by G. and T. Hunt. . Volume I, Nos. I-VI Jan-June 15 1822 [all published] Royal octavo red half roan, original boards covered in blue sugar paper, spine title gilt (rebacked with matching red roan corners, original spine laid on), original free end-papers with new pastedown, armorial bookplate with motto DA VIS and pencilled ownership H. Davis at head of titlepage, vi + [2]pp list of engravings +540pp +16 of 19 hand-colored plates. LACKS 4 text leaves (pp 217-24) - the missing 3 plates and 4 text leaves in colour facsimile reproduced from the 1904 reprint, bound in to match. One gathering with edges browned, some offsetting from plates to text, otherwise clean and crisp throughout. *Beautiful bright hand-coloured plates of hunting, shooting, tandem-driving, livestock etc. Very rare in original edition (Schwerdt II p.212 "the first and only edition of a rare and valuable magazine"). This is the original 1822 edition, not the more common reprint published in 1904.
Keywords: sport racing horses shooting hunting equestrian hand colored plates
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Title: THE SPORTING REPOSITORY Containing Horse-racing, Hunting, Coursing, Shooting .., Anecdotes on Sporting Subjects, interspersed with Essays, Tales, and a Great Variety of Miscellaneous Articles.
Description: London, Printed by W. Lewis for Thomas McLean, 26, Haymarket 1822 Hand-coloured aquatint plates (16 of 19) after H. Alken and J. Barenger by G. and T. Hunt. . Volume I, Nos. I-VI Jan-June 15 1822 [all published] Royal octavo red half roan, original boards covered in blue sugar paper, spine title gilt (rebacked with matching red roan corners, original spine laid on), original free end-papers with new pastedown, armorial bookplate with motto DA VIS and pencilled ownership H. Davis at head of titlepage, vi + [2]pp list of engravings +540pp +16 of 19 hand-colored plates. LACKS 4 text leaves (pp 217-24) - the missing 3 plates and 4 text leaves in colour facsimile reproduced from the 1904 reprint, bound in to match. One gathering with edges browned, some offsetting from plates to text, otherwise clean and crisp throughout. *Beautiful bright hand-coloured plates of hunting, shooting, tandem-driving, livestock etc. Very rare in original edition (Schwerdt II p.212 "the first and only edition of a rare and valuable magazine"). This is the original 1822 edition, not the more common reprint published in 1904.
Keywords: sport racing horses shooting hunting equestrian hand colored plates
Price: GBP 855.00 = appr. US$ 1220.93 Seller: Abbey Antiquarian Books
- Book number: V71064
- Book number: V71064
See more books from our catalog: Antiquarian