Crown 4to (255 mm); 256 pp; 15 colour plates. Handsomely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in full green calf, spine sunned down to brown, with gilt lettering to front board and spine panels; spine decorated with gilt motifs of a sporting theme; marbled endpapers. A few spots of foxing to endpapers. A handsome copy. Originally published privately in 1837 by Rudolph Ackerman for Lawrence Rawstorne, "and the only copies that found their way into country house libraries were gifts from the author," (Eric Parker - Introduction). Seller Inventory # 12963

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Title: GAMONIA : OR,THE ART OF PRESERVING GAME; AND...

Publisher: London : Herbert Jenkins

Publication Date: 1929

Binding: Hardcover

Book Type: Book

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Antiquarian and second-hand bookstore in the heart of fashionable Chelsea, in London, an area famed for its links to bohemian London and the beau monde scene of the 1960s and 70s.

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