Fores' Sporting Notes & Sketches. A Quarterly Magazine descriptive of British and Foreign Sport. Illustrated by Finch Mason and R.M. Alexander
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Published by LondonMessrs. Fores -1912., 1885
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29 vols. 8vo. (23 x 15 cm). Uniformly bound in publisher's half red morocco over blue cloth covered boards, spines with raised bands, with gilt lettering to two compartments and gilt devices to remaining four: duck, horse's head, crossed whips with a fox's brush and riding hat and a horse shoe. With marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. 928 plates after Finch Mason, R.M. Alexander, Cuthbert Bradley and others (the majority tinted lithographs). Slight unevenness to colour of spines (as usual), light foxing to fore edges. A very handsome set. Original wrappers and publisher's advertisements at the back of each volume. Includes hunting, shooting, fishing etc. Complete set. Seller Inventory # 41379
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Title: Fores' Sporting Notes & Sketches. A ...
Publisher: LondonMessrs. Fores -1912.
Publication Date: 1885
Binding: Soft cover
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FORES'S SPORTING NOTES AND SKETCHES. A Quarterly Magazine descriptive of British and Foreign Sport. Illustrated by Finch Mason and R.M. Alexander. Volume I. 1884-1885.
Published by
Messrs. Fores, London, 1885
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Sarah Zaluckyj, KINGTON, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: With All Faults. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. First Edition. 238 pages. No dustjacket. TATTY/SHABBY at least 1 plate is MISSING most are present. Red pictorial hardback binding much rubbed, 2cm losses to spine-ends, 1cm hole to spine, wear to boards' corners some blanching, hinges strained, nevertheless an interesting old volumne. Seller Inventory # 065989
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FORES'S SPORTING NOTES AND SKETCHES. A Quarterly Magazine descriptive of British and Foreign Sport. Illustrated by Finch Mason and R.M. Alexander. Volume I. 1884-1885.
Published by
Messrs. Fores. London. 1885, 1885
Used
Softcover
First Edition
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1885). 1885 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 224mm). Ppviii,238 + 16pp publisher's catalogue at rear. Illustrated with 32 full-page illustrations on tinted paper. Ornately decorated red cloth, printed in black and gilt, hunting image in gilt on upper board and the same image blind-stamped on lower board, bevelled edges. Corners rubbed, slight foxing, inner hinges slightly tender. Overall a nice clean good-plus copy. This, the first annual volume, contains 33 articles on sport: racing; hunting; coaching; deer stalking; game bird shooting; curling and angling. The angling chapters include: "Thames Trout Fishing" by J.P. Wheeldon; "Trout And Salmon Fishing" by 'Rockwood'; "A Bare-faced Case Of Poaching" by 'Scramo'; and "A Queer Day On Loch Leven" by R.M. Alexander. This quarterly magazine was initially sold in wrappers, but each year was also published as a hardbound book in a uniform decorative cloth binding. This, the first such volume was published in 1885, and the last was in 1911. . Seller Inventory # 32917
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