Sports & Pastimes

Second edition; 4to; two hand-coloured plates and further engraved illustrations and vignettes within the text, neat, contemporary ink gift inscription to front flyleaf, a few random spots, otherwise very good, contemporary gilt-panelled calf, all edges gilt, cockerel endpapers, staining and wear to boards but still a very handsome binding; xvii, 298pp.

Third edition; lge. 8vo (25 x 16 cm); engraved, hand-coloured frontispiece a further 9 engraved plates, three of which hand-coloured, near-contemporary ink inscription, dated 2nd April 1829 to half-title, slight staining to top edge with resultant weeping to top margin of early leaves but only prominent on margin to plate opposite p49, not affecting image or text, some very random, light spotting to a few pages, otherwise very clean and bright; near-contemporary diced calf gilt, speckled edges, rubbing to boards, else very handsome; xxii, 470pp.

First edition. Two parts in 1 vol. 4to (21.5 x 17.3 cm). pp. [24], 176, [16], 176, [52] pp. Engraved frontispiece and 28 engraved plates, some folding. Modern half-vellum boards.

Quarto (33.5 x 26 cm). VIII, incl. title, 216 pp., with 20 lith. plates and a map; a few marginal repairs, some occasional light spotting. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettering to upper cover, decorative borders; slightly rubbed and spotted, corners bumped.

Limited edition number 309 of one thousand copies printed, folio, 38 x 29 cm xiv, 488pp., twelve tissue-guarded photogravures and numerous illustrations within the text, many taken from photographs, else fine, publisher's chamfered red morocco gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt Anthemion dentelles and all edges gilt, a fine copy.

Limited edition number 309 of one thousand copies printed, folio, Frontispiece and a further nine tissue-guarded photogravures, eight colour plates, and numerous smaller illustrations within the text, many taken from photographs, publisher's chamfered red morocco gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt Anthemion dentelles and all edges gilt, fading to spine, else near fine.

Limited edition number 309 of one thousand copies printed, folio, 38 x 29 cm; Frontispiece photogravure of King Edward VII and numerous full-page (tissue-guarded) and smaller illustrations within the text, many taken from photographs, publisher's chamfered red morocco gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt Anthemion dentelles and all edges gilt, fading to spine, else near fine.

8vo., xxiii, 416pp., engraved portrait frontispiece and seven engraved plates by Bertall, illustrated title-page vignette, numerous wood-engravings in the text, occasional light foxing throughout. Fine French-style calf, spine richly gilt with label, a.e.g.

First edition, 8vo., 235pp, extra illustrated, including 25 engravings coloured by hand, [bound together with] Observations on Dog-Breaking, [by] Willliam Floyd, London, 1828, 22pp.,+ 2 advertisements, 6 engraved plates; occasional light spotting, mostly to preliminary pages but predominantly clean throughout, early 20th century full morocco by Tout, gilt shooting motifs to covers and spine panels, foliate dentelles, top edge gilt and others untrimmed.

First and limited numbered edition of only 2000 printed, (although 3500 were planned), this copy numbered 1671, landscape 4to., 312pp., numerous vintage photographic illustrations with French text, (together with a separate saddle-stitched English translation by Peter Hull also published in 1991, 64pp.), publisher's blue leatherette, the upper cover mounted with a stunning silver metal intaglio plaque, rubbing to head of spine, else fine, both books housed in original decorative slip-case, which is a little worn and chipped from protecting the superb content.