first edition, first issue with 4 mounted plates and plate at p.348 in first state, engraved additional title with vignettes, portrait and 34 fine aquatint plates by Henry Alken all hand-coloured, 10pp. advertisements at end, very occasional spotting or soiling, a very clean copy in the original pictorial blue cloth, gilt, spine gilt, g.e., a little rubbed, spine faded, recased, new endpapers, preserved in later blue morocco-backed cloth drop-front box, spine slightly rubbed and faded, [Podeschi 167; Schwerdt I p.36; Siltzer p.73; Tooley 65], 8vo, R.Ackermann, 1842. *** "Considered by many to be the premier coloured plate sporting book in the 19th century." Tooley
first edition, first issue with 4 mounted plates and plate at p.348 in first state, engraved additional title with vignettes, portrait and 34 fine aquatint plates by Henry Alken all hand-coloured, 10pp. advertisements at end, very occasional spotting or soiling, a very clean copy in the original pictorial blue cloth, gilt, spine gilt, g.e., a little rubbed, spine faded, recased, new endpapers, preserved in later blue morocco-backed cloth drop-front box, spine slightly rubbed and faded, [Podeschi 167; Schwerdt I p.36; Siltzer p.73; Tooley 65], 8vo, R.Ackermann, 1842. *** "Considered by many to be the premier coloured plate sporting book in the 19th century." Tooley
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