Author: FRANKLAND, Sir Robert
Title: The Southern Hounds
Description: London: C. Turner, 1813-15. Securing the Privilege of Breaking Your Neck First, and When you Fall-" Seven Amusing Hand Colored Etched Plates FRANKLAND, Sir Robert. The Southern Hounds, or Hunting in it's Infancy. London: C. Turner, July 31, 1813-June 5, 1815. First edition. Oblong folio (10 1/4 x 14 3/4 inches; 260 x 375 mm.). Seven superb hand colored etched plates. Handsomely bound ca. 1900 by Rivière & Son in full dark green morocco, covers triple-ruled in gilt, spine with five raised band elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt ruled board edges, elaborate gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Original drab wrappers bound in at end. A very fine copy. The Plates: 1. The Southern Hounds, or Hunting in it's Infancy. London, Pubd. July 31, 1813. by C. Turner 2. Heading the Fox. "my eye here he comes" London, Pubd. October 21, 1814. by C. Turner 3. Thrown Out. "I say Misses, which way are the hounds?" London, Pubd. October 21, 1814. by C. Turner 4. Craning. "Come along, there's no ditch." London, Pubd. October 21, 1814. by C. Turner 5. "Taking a Lead, by which is understood Securing the Privilege of breaking your neck first, and when you fall, of being run over by a Hundred & Ninety nine of the best fellows upon earth to a dead certainty." London, Pubd. July 1st, 1813. by C. Turner 6. Young Gentlemen amusing themselves with what is called riding at one another. London, Pubd. June 5, 1815 by C. Turner 7. The Pleasures & Advantages of a capital run (meltonicè) a Tickler. London, Pubd. June 5, 1815. by C. Turner The fine plates bear different imprints from those cited by Schwerdt, although many of the dates correspond. This copy with all plates reading "by C. Turner Warren Street [or 50 Warren Street] Fitzroy Square". Plate 2 is dated "October 21, 1814" and plate 5 "July 1st, 1813", both undated in the Schwerdt copy. "Siltzer (p. 121) quotes this set, but only mentions the first five plates. Plates 6 and 7 are the ones which are signed "R.F.inv. et fecit." Every plate has a different style of title, excepting the last two which are both entirely in facsimile handwriting." (Schwerdt II, p. 169). Rare: OCLC/KVK locate no copies in libraries and institutions worldwide. We have been unable to trace any other copies at auction since 1960. Bobins III, 1180; Schwerdt II, 168/9 (later issue); Siltzer p.121; not in Jeanson or Tooley. .
Keywords: Caricatures Hunting Sports Horses
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Title: The Southern Hounds
Description: London: C. Turner, 1813-15. Securing the Privilege of Breaking Your Neck First, and When you Fall-" Seven Amusing Hand Colored Etched Plates FRANKLAND, Sir Robert. The Southern Hounds, or Hunting in it's Infancy. London: C. Turner, July 31, 1813-June 5, 1815. First edition. Oblong folio (10 1/4 x 14 3/4 inches; 260 x 375 mm.). Seven superb hand colored etched plates. Handsomely bound ca. 1900 by Rivière & Son in full dark green morocco, covers triple-ruled in gilt, spine with five raised band elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt ruled board edges, elaborate gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Original drab wrappers bound in at end. A very fine copy. The Plates: 1. The Southern Hounds, or Hunting in it's Infancy. London, Pubd. July 31, 1813. by C. Turner 2. Heading the Fox. "my eye here he comes" London, Pubd. October 21, 1814. by C. Turner 3. Thrown Out. "I say Misses, which way are the hounds?" London, Pubd. October 21, 1814. by C. Turner 4. Craning. "Come along, there's no ditch." London, Pubd. October 21, 1814. by C. Turner 5. "Taking a Lead, by which is understood Securing the Privilege of breaking your neck first, and when you fall, of being run over by a Hundred & Ninety nine of the best fellows upon earth to a dead certainty." London, Pubd. July 1st, 1813. by C. Turner 6. Young Gentlemen amusing themselves with what is called riding at one another. London, Pubd. June 5, 1815 by C. Turner 7. The Pleasures & Advantages of a capital run (meltonicè) a Tickler. London, Pubd. June 5, 1815. by C. Turner The fine plates bear different imprints from those cited by Schwerdt, although many of the dates correspond. This copy with all plates reading "by C. Turner Warren Street [or 50 Warren Street] Fitzroy Square". Plate 2 is dated "October 21, 1814" and plate 5 "July 1st, 1813", both undated in the Schwerdt copy. "Siltzer (p. 121) quotes this set, but only mentions the first five plates. Plates 6 and 7 are the ones which are signed "R.F.inv. et fecit." Every plate has a different style of title, excepting the last two which are both entirely in facsimile handwriting." (Schwerdt II, p. 169). Rare: OCLC/KVK locate no copies in libraries and institutions worldwide. We have been unable to trace any other copies at auction since 1960. Bobins III, 1180; Schwerdt II, 168/9 (later issue); Siltzer p.121; not in Jeanson or Tooley. .
Keywords: Caricatures Hunting Sports Horses
Price: US$ 3500.00 Seller: David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)
- Book number: 05847
- Book number: 05847
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