With a Brief Memoir of Nimrod, third edition, additional engraved title with aquatint vignette, 18 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Henry Alken and T.J.Rawlins, 8pp. publisher's catalogue at end, plates with occasional spotting and marginal soiling, tissue guards browned, text foxed, old ink signature at head of front pastedown, original pictorial green cloth, blocked in gilt on upper cover and in blind on lower, g.e., rubbed and faded, a few stains to upper cover, recased, preserved in later green morocco-backed cloth drop-front box, spine faded, [Schwerdt I p.39; Siltzer p.73; Tooley 68; cf.Abbey, Life 385, second edition], 8vo, R.Ackermann, 1851. *** The first edition to contain the life of Nimrod.
With a Brief Memoir of Nimrod, third edition, additional engraved title with aquatint vignette, 18 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Henry Alken and T.J.Rawlins, 8pp. publisher's catalogue at end, plates with occasional spotting and marginal soiling, tissue guards browned, text foxed, old ink signature at head of front pastedown, original pictorial green cloth, blocked in gilt on upper cover and in blind on lower, g.e., rubbed and faded, a few stains to upper cover, recased, preserved in later green morocco-backed cloth drop-front box, spine faded, [Schwerdt I p.39; Siltzer p.73; Tooley 68; cf.Abbey, Life 385, second edition], 8vo, R.Ackermann, 1851. *** The first edition to contain the life of Nimrod.
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