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Advice To Sportsmen. Rural or Metropolitan, Noviciates Or Grown Persons; With Anecdotes Of The Most Renowned Shots Of The Day: Exemplified from Life. Including Recommendatory Hints In The Choice Of Guns, Dogs, And Sporting Paraphernalia: Also, Characters, Costumes And Correspondence; Selected from the Original Notes, &c, of Marmaduke Markwell, Esq
by Rowlandson, Thomas [Illustrator]
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Period full brown calf. Teg. Very good
- Seller
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About This Item
London: Thomas Tegg, 1809. First edition. leather_bound. Period full brown calf. Teg. Very good. 132 pages. 17 x 10.5 cm. Half title, frontispiece and 15 hand-colored plates after Rowlandson. Early, scarce work of Rowlandson. TOOLEY 407. Armorial bookplate, inner dentelles, chipping front endpaper fore-edge, plates clean, text generally bright, raised bands, spine panels richly gilt, triple gilt border fillets, front cover hinge repaired, moderate surface wear.
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- Royoung bookseller, Inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20667
- Title
- Advice To Sportsmen. Rural or Metropolitan, Noviciates Or Grown Persons; With Anecdotes Of The Most Renowned Shots Of The Day: Exemplified from Life. Including Recommendatory Hints In The Choice Of Guns, Dogs, And Sporting Paraphernalia: Also, Characters, Costumes And Correspondence; Selected from the Original Notes, &c, of Marmaduke Markwell, Esq
- Author
- Rowlandson, Thomas [Illustrator]
- Format/Binding
- Leather_bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Period full brown calf. Teg. Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Thomas Tegg
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1809
- Keywords
- Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Social Life; Sporting;
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