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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: . . .
by Markwell, Marmaduke. Thomas Rowlandson, illustrator
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Thomas Tegg. Printer: Henry & Haddon, 1809. First edition. Hardcover. Paper backed boards. Cloth folding case. . Very Good. 12mo. 17.5 by 10.5 cm. 132 pp. 15 hand-colored lithographic plates after Rowlandson. Tooley 407. Schwerdt II, pp. 14-15. Contemporary blue paper-backed boards, with printed paper label on spine. Condition: old spine repair. Still about one inch of spine loss at foot. Cloth folding case with light wear. Its interior white paper lining has light foxing and staining. Leaves with age toning, offsetting, scattered light foxing or soiling, and a few minor flattened creases.
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- Bookseller
- White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006100
- 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: . . .
- Author
- Markwell, Marmaduke. Thomas Rowlandson, illustrator
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover. Paper backed boards. Cloth folding case.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Thomas Tegg. Printer: Henry & Haddon
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1809
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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About the Seller
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
Biblio member since 2010
New York, New York
About White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
By appointment. Antiquarian and rare books with strengths in illustrated plate books, the decorative arts, costume, sporting, foreign language literature (in the original language), with growing emphasis on early printing.
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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