FOX-HUNTING SONGS -- The Little Warbler. Hunting Songs I [& II, Bacchanalian Songs III & IV] . London: T. Hughes, [c.1840]. 24° (67 x 42mm). Hand-coloured lithographed title and folding frontispiece, collation as in Schwerdt, loc. cit. (Occasional light browning.) Contemporary grained black roan, sides and flat spine ruled in gilt (rubbed), in a blue cloth folding box. Provenance : C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (without bookplate or with the bookplate pasted over by the Duke of Gloucester's; his sale, 15 July 1946, lot 2543). Schwerdt IV, p.57. OLIVER, Stephen. The Old English Squire, a Song...The Music composed by D. Blake . London: Walter Spiers, 1838. 8° (185 x 111mm). Half-title, hand-coloured etched title-vignette and 6 hand-coloured plates after H.K. Browne, 2 leaves of engraved music. (Light staining and offsetting.) Polished calf gilt by Riviere, green label on spine, top edges gilt, gilt turn-ins, original wrappers preserved (upper cover slightly marked). Provenance : C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate; his sale, 15 July 1946, lot 2323). Schwerdt I, p.70. With 18 others similar (of which 10 are Schwerdt copies including: The Sportsman's Vocal Cabinet , (London, 1834), The Jolly Huntsman's Garland , (Newcastle, c.1820) and Edward Goulburn's The Epwell Hunt , edited by Sir Thomas Phillipps (n.p., 1847). (20)
FOX-HUNTING SONGS -- The Little Warbler. Hunting Songs I [& II, Bacchanalian Songs III & IV] . London: T. Hughes, [c.1840]. 24° (67 x 42mm). Hand-coloured lithographed title and folding frontispiece, collation as in Schwerdt, loc. cit. (Occasional light browning.) Contemporary grained black roan, sides and flat spine ruled in gilt (rubbed), in a blue cloth folding box. Provenance : C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (without bookplate or with the bookplate pasted over by the Duke of Gloucester's; his sale, 15 July 1946, lot 2543). Schwerdt IV, p.57. OLIVER, Stephen. The Old English Squire, a Song...The Music composed by D. Blake . London: Walter Spiers, 1838. 8° (185 x 111mm). Half-title, hand-coloured etched title-vignette and 6 hand-coloured plates after H.K. Browne, 2 leaves of engraved music. (Light staining and offsetting.) Polished calf gilt by Riviere, green label on spine, top edges gilt, gilt turn-ins, original wrappers preserved (upper cover slightly marked). Provenance : C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate; his sale, 15 July 1946, lot 2323). Schwerdt I, p.70. With 18 others similar (of which 10 are Schwerdt copies including: The Sportsman's Vocal Cabinet , (London, 1834), The Jolly Huntsman's Garland , (Newcastle, c.1820) and Edward Goulburn's The Epwell Hunt , edited by Sir Thomas Phillipps (n.p., 1847). (20)
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