Author: John William Carleton [ed.]
Title: The Sporting Sketch Book: A Series of Characteristic Papers, by the Most Distinguished Sporting Writers of the Day
Description: London, How and Parsons, 1842. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this charming collection of essays on sports, with contributions from ' the most distinguished sporting writers of the day&apos. Contributors include Lord William Lennox, Jonathan Swift, 'a gentleman of Kentucky', and Sir John Dean Paul.Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and ten further engraved plates, each retaining the original tissue guard. Collated, complete.Essays in this delightful collection - edited by John William Carleton - include discussions of otter-hunting, fowling, and the beagles of Prince Albert. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Fading to back strip and head of front board. Split in cloth of rear joint, with board holding firm. Internally, firmly bound. Spotting and handling marks to tissue guards, with pages clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

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