Apperley J C Nimrod (28 results)

Condition: Fair. First edition. 301p + 13 plates by Henry Alken and a frontispiece portrait by Daniel Maclise. Covers rubbed and spotted. Frontispiece loosening. Lacks some of the tissue guardsheets. The margins of the opening spread and the plates are discolored and sometimes heavily foxed. I don't know the cause of the discoloring. The text pages are clean. Three long articles on hunting, racing, and driving, reprinted from the Quarterly Review. Lots of colorful detail. On the elegance of London coachmen processing through Hyde Park he writes, "it is hard to determine which shine brightest, the lace on their clothes, their own round faces, or their flaxen wigs,--the pipe-clayed reins--pipe-clayed lest they should soil the clean white gloves,--the gigantic young fellows, in huge cocked hats, bedaubed with lace, in laced silk stockings, new kid gloves, and with gold-headed canes, . . . not forgetting the spotted coach-dog, which has just been washed for the occasion." However, he also notes that "like all other trades, coach-making is on the wane" and prices are dropping. An edition that often shows wear. Reading copy, sold as is, priced accordingly. Hardcover (marbled boards, half leather). Henry Alken, D. Maclise (illustrator).…

Condition: Gut. New Edition. Mit einem Frontispiz, einem gestoch. Titel u. 22 teils ganzs. Abb. XVIII S., 1 Bl. 277 S., 1 Bl. Der Einband fleckig und stellenweise berieben. Schnitt und einige Seiten fleckig, Porträt und gestochener Titel stärker. - Vorderer Innenspiegel mit Buchhändlermarke. - New Edition. - Exemplar aus der Sammlung 'Bibliotheca Tiliana' (Jagdbibliothek Kurt Lindner). Aufgrund der EU-Verpackungsverordnung (PPWR) Versand nur noch innerhalb Deutschlands möglich. Kein Versand in EU-Länder !! Due to the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), shipping is now only possible within Germany. No shipping to other EU countries!! Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 500 8°. OHLn. mit goldgeprägtem Rtit.…

New Edition. Good to very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and sun-toned. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 231 pages; A new ed., with an introduction by W.S. Sparrow and. illustrations.after F. Barlow, G. Stubbs, J. Wootton [etc.]. Subjects; Hunting. Coaching (Transportation) - Great Britain. Carriages and carts. Horse sports. Fox hunting. Hunt riding. Driving of horse-drawn vehicles. Horse racing. PublishedPhysical description; xvi, 231 p. : col. frontis., ill., pl. (part. col.) ; 26 cm. Notes; Three papers originally published in The quarterly review; previous collected edition under title The chase, the turf and the road, London : Edward Arnold, 1898. Cover title: The chace, the road & the turf. Includes index. 1 Kg. …

Condition: Befriedigend. Mit einem Frontispiz, 11 Holzstich- u. 2 Stahlstichtafeln. XVIII S., 1 Bl. XX, 301 S., 8 Bl. Erste Ausgabe. - Der Einband berieben / fleckig. Innengelenke gebrochen. Buchblock gebrochen und vom Einband gelöst. Titelblatt und Tafeln fleckig. - Exlibris Hugh Prichard. - Schwerdt I, 36. - Exemplar aus der Sammlung 'Bibliotheca Tiliana' (Jagdbibliothek Kurt Lindner). Aufgrund der EU-Verpackungsverordnung (PPWR) Versand nur noch innerhalb Deutschlands möglich. Kein Versand in EU-Länder !! Due to the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), shipping is now only possible within Germany. No shipping to other EU countries!! Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 750 Gr.-8°. OLn. mit goldgeprägtem Rtit. …

New Edition. Good to very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and sun-toned. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 231 pages; A new ed., with an introduction by W.S. Sparrow and. illustrations.after F. Barlow, G. Stubbs, J. Wootton [etc.]. Subjects; Hunting. Coaching (Transportation) - Great Britain. Carriages and carts. Horse sports. Fox hunting. Hunt riding. Driving of horse-drawn vehicles. Horse racing. PublishedPhysical description; xvi, 231 p. : col. frontis., ill., pl. (part. col.) ; 26 cm. Notes; Three papers originally published in The quarterly review; previous collected edition under title The chase, the turf and the road, London : Edward Arnold, 1898. Cover title: The chace, the road & the turf. Includes index. 1 Kg. …

Cloth. Condition: Fine. n.d. (c.1900), 20 col. plates by H. Alken and T.J. Rawlins.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. An attractive facsimile printing of the second enlarged edition of the amusing biography, including a colour title lead, and notes on Alken and Nimrod. A charming facsimile of the Second revised and enlarged edition of the Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, the influential biography on the Regency rake, eccentric and politician, written by sport journalist and author Charles James Apperley under the pseudonym Nimrod. Believed to have been printed in 1914, originally published in 1837. In the publisher's original green cloth, with a colour title leaf, frontispiece, and nineteen other colour plates by British painters Henry Thomas Alken and T.J. Rawlins. This particular facsimile contains an insightful introduction on Alken's illustrations, written by British art collector and journalist Joseph Grego, and an introductory notice on Nimrod written by H.C. A friend of his subject, Nimrod's biography on Mytton is perhaps more famous than the larger-than-life figure himself, and such is due to his brilliant recounting of Mytton's various exploits, including bribing voters into parliament, attempting to jump over a tollgate with horse and carriage, and many other wild stories In the publisher's original green cloth. Externally, mostly smart, with small marks to front board extremities and to the rear board, and slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine, and to the extremities. End papers are bright and clean with minor signs of browning. Internally, firmly bound, with very minor wear to hinge between plate and p.51. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good. Henry Thomas Alken, T.J. Rawlins (illustrator). book.…

Baily & Co., London, 1838. VIII, 144 S. mit einem in Stahl gestochenen Frontispiz und 15 Textabb. im Holzschnitt, original Leinen-Einband mit goldgeprägtem Deckelwappen, folio, (berieben, bestoßen und angestaubt/Rücken eingerissen/einige Seiten lose /ohne die 22 Stahlstichtafeln/etwas stockfleckig)--- 1565 Gramm.…

One page. 8vo. Slight use along the edges; creased where folded; otherwise fine. Regarding whether or not to send a large parcel of ms. now ready, if the health of Mr. Fraser will permit his addressing him on the subject of the forthcoming work.

Mit gestoch. Frontisp., gestoch. Titelvign. u. 7 Stahlstichtafeln. VIII, 524 S. Roter Leinenband der Zeit m. Rückenschild. - Gestochenes Exlibris. - Englischer Text. - Frontisp. u. stellenweise fleckig, insgesamt gutes Ex. 1.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo. 598 pages. Original diced-calf boards, sometime neatly rebacked saving marble endpapers. Marbled edges (faded). Name of original owner to fly leaf. Old damp stain to top corner of first 3 blank leaves, else very good throughout.

FIRST EDITION, lg.8vo., pp.x,332 + 8pp. publisher's catalogue; 32 wood-engraved illustrations & copper-plates, including extra engraved title & nine full-page engraved maps of the major hunts, each with vignette at head & sites 'of the various meets' coloured in green; a very good uncut copy in slightly rubbed original blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gold. Hunting Social History Sport Illustrated Book.…

1926. John Lane The Bodley Head Limited. Hardback. Book - Good, covers and spine faded.

Gr.-8° (24:15,5 cm). Mit gest. Titel u. 18 kol. Aquatintataf. IX, 218 S., 8 S. Anz. Goldgepr. Or.-Lwd., berieben, Rücken restauriert; in mod. Lwd.-Kassette. Etwas gebräunt u. stockfleckig. Gest. Exlibris Nathan of Churt. With notices on his hunting, shooting, driving, racing, eccentric, and extravagant exploits. - Tooley 68; Schwerdt I, 39. - Die schönen Tafeln von H. Alken und T. J. Rawlins mit karikaturistischen Jagd- und Reitszenen.…

VI S., 1 Bl., 402 S., 5 Bll. Dunkelblauer Maroquineinband um 1900 (signiert: Baytun & Rivière) mit Rücken- und Deckelvergoldung mit Jagdmotiven, Steh- und Innenkantenvergoldung, Goldschnitt. 25 : 17 cm. * Tooley 65. - Schwerdt I, 36. - Erste Ausgabe. - Mit dekorativen Jagd-, Reit- und Kutschfahrtszenen in kräftigem Kolorit. Die Tafeln zu S. 13, 14, 18 und 55 montiert und mit Beschriftung wie im ersten Druck. Tafel zu S. 348 beschriftet "The tandem" wie im zweiten Druck (siehe Tooly). - Am Schluß blauer Orig.-Lwd. des ersten Drucks auf 3 Blatt aufgezogen. Leicht gebräunt, Tafeln tlw. im Rand schwach stockfleckig. - Exlibris. - Rücken gering verblasst. - Insges. schönes Exemplar in einem bemerkenswerten Handeinband. von Baytun & Rivière, Bath. Vorderer Vorsatz mit Exlibris "From the Library of H. Harvey Frost". Aufgrund der neuen PPWR-Regelung zur Zeit kein Versand in EU-Länder. Due to PPWR no delivery to EU-countries.…

leather. 1st. Small 4to, 400 pp.+plates, Limited to 500 copies, Bound by Whitman Bennett, NY in full red leather with gilt decorations depicting themes related to foxhunting & horses. Includes 18 engraved color plates printed on a heavier stock with printed tissue guards Nearly fine copy in full red, gilt-decorated leather. Well-illustrated (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Folio. viii, 144 pages. First edition. Original cloth, rebacked with spine reapplied. Illustrated with 38 engravings.

Hardcover. First edition. 108 pages. 21 x 13.5 cm. Twelve hand-colored etched plates, the design and etching by Henry Alken, the aquatint by E. Duncan. Apperley had been Mytton's neighbour in Shropshire, and both had lived together in Calais to avoid creditors. "Apperley's task was to write the life of a man who, while he was one of the most heroic sportsmen that ever lived, was also drunken, diseased and insane, and he performed the task with admirable judgment. [Cambridge History of English and American Literature, vol. XIV]. Three of the plates in this first edition (2, 8 and 9) did not appear in the second edition and valued highter than the second edition which had 18 plates. Owner inscription front cover pastedown. Nick to backstrip foot. ABBEY LIFE, 385. GORDON RAY 48. Orig. brown cloth decorated in blind, front cover scroll device lettered in gilt. Very good in fine full red morocco pull-off case by Riviere & Son.…

hardcover. Condition: near fine. Engraved extra title & 18 fine colored aquatint plates after Alken and Rawlins. Tall 8vo, green 3/4 levant, marbled boards, gilt-paneled spine, g.t. London: Ackermann, 1851. Near fine. Third Edition of this classic of British hunting, racing, shooting, etc., handsomely bound (slight wear at one joint). This edition includes the 13pp. "Brief Memoir of Nimrod," by R. S. Surtees. …

reprint Edn. XXVI 234 pages, large 8vo., coloured frontis and 19 further coloured plates, publishers green cloth, gilt vignette to upper board, vg.

reprint Edn. XI 400 pages, 36 colour plates, inscription on front paste down, green cloth with gilt fox vignette to upper board, vg. First published in 1842 "A half true half ficticous story descriptive of a country gentleman of large fortune and highly connected and his children's and sporting ambitions. The plates are excellent showing various sporting pursuits.…

2nd with considerable additions Edn. IX+ 2064 pages, 8pp adverts, AEG, 18 fine hand coloured plates by H. Alken and T.J.Rawlins. 1 plate has slight chipping and dust soiling to very outer margin not effecting title or image. Recased in the publishers cloth with spine relayed, gilt title to upper board within an ornate sporting frame, vg. Schwerdt Vol 1 38-39 "The second which is more interesting than the first on the account of the increased number of plates". John Mytton a hard living hard drinking sportsman died at the age of 38 penniless. Chute 1st edition 022.…

2nd with considerable additions Edn. IX+ 206 pages, 8pp adverts, AEG, 18 fine hand coloured plates by H. Alken and T.J.Rawlins. Some occasional spotting to blank margin of plates and text, bound in full dark green morroco by Zaehnsdorf, gilt ruled borders to boards, spine in 6 compartments, ornate gilt tooling with double ruled borders, inner tooled borders, original cloth cover boards bound in at rear. Schwerdt Vol 1 38-39 "The second which is more interesting than the first on the account of the increased number of plates". John Mytton a hard living hard drinking sportsman died at the age of 38 penniless. Chute 1st edition 022.…

First Edition. First Printing. Octavo. 21.5cm. Publisher's original pebble grain deep brown cloth titled and embellished in gilt to front board. [iv]; [2]; 110pp. Tight, clean and strong, a little bumping and scuffing to extremities, light sunning to spine, very handsome; internally clean and fresh, brown endpapers with armorial bookplate to front pastedown, tipped into the prelims (actually affixed to the rear of the frontis by a stub) is an addressed postal paper, probably the front of an envelope, bearing Mytton's signature, an 1820 Shrewsbury postal frank, and the address of Mrs. Lethbridge, the married name of Mytton's sister; the 12 hand colored plates by Alken are spectacularly bright and striking, tissue guards are present. An outstandingly clean and attractive copy, if it is possible for a book that has made its way from 1835 to be described as "near fine", then this fits the bill. The book in the hand is quite a slight volume, but is housed in one of the most luxurious book boxes we have encountered; a deep red levant morocco case by Sangorski, with a push button clasp, a rather decadent cushioned velvet lining, and a drop front for ease of opening. The book itself has a tailor made red cloth and board chemise. Also present in the case are old catalog entries for the book, one of which is on a Bernard Quaritch letterhead, and a three page typed analysis of the title in all its editions and permutations by Ernest R. Gee, one of the most legendary New York dealers in sporting and hunting books. Quaritch's pencil notes to the front flyleaf state: "Very rare in original condition. Extremely fine and perfect copy", which for them is the equivalent of throwing a parade. The bookplate is that of noted collector of fine books E. Hubert Litchfield, whose legendary library was auctioned off in 1951, like so many post-war libraries from country seats of extinguished gentry. John "Mad Jack" Mytton himself was probably the epitome of the early 19th century fearless noble rake. Frequently in his own lifetime compared to that other luminous doomed libertine, Lord John Rochester; Mytton was an alcoholic (he took 2000 bottles of port with him to college), a gambler, by the standards of the time a womaniser, and as Rifleman Harris would say; "A courtier to my Lord Bacchus and an unremitting debtor." Regardless of his belief that moral highground was just something to gallop one's hounds over, during his lifetime Mytton was very much loved by his friends, associates, and servants. A mad eccentric, whose life can best be described as a series of enthusiastically botched suicide attempts, he was also generous to a fault, utterly without fear, completely at home in his own lunacy, kind, thoughtful, creative, and very much a product of his time. When he wasn't dressing as a highwayman to terrify rural clergy, or hunting wildfowl in winter, at night, on ice.naked, he was riding a bear into dinner parties, accidentally setting himself on fire to cure hiccups, and dressing up as a tramp to test the charity of his own estate staff (he ended up fist fighting his own under butler when they failed to be forthcoming). He was dead by 38, riddled with alcoholism and compounded injury, and just like with Rochester, his light went down entangled with the dark. Accounts vary, but something like 3500 people including his tenants and servants, attended his funeral, including a beautiful young woman named Susan whom Mytton had met on Westminster Bridge in 1831 and promptly offered a salary of 500 pounds a year to be his companion; she stayed with him until his death. A rare book lavishly preserved, commemorating a type of man that for better or worse, no longer exists. …

1st Edn. VI (2) 402 pages, A.E.G. 36 hand coloured plates by Henry Alken of which 4 plates are on India paper mounted on thick paper, plate 33 2nd issue, contents clean and free of foxing, bound in full burgundy morroco by Riviere, triple gilt ruled border to boards, spine in 6 compartments, ornate gilt tooling within ruled borders inner gilt turn ins, light surface rubbing to spine edge. A vg copy of what is considered by many the premier coloured plate sporting book of the 19th century. (Tooley 65) Schwerdt I 36. .…

"A Most Valuable and Important Book" Second and Enlarged Edition With Additional Text and Six Extra Hand-Colored Plates [ALKEN, Henry, illustrator]. NIMROD (pseud. of C.J. Apperley). Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire, Formerly M.P. for Shrewsbury, High sheriff for the Counties of Salup & Merioneth, and Major of the North Stropshire Yeomanry Cavalry. With Notices of His Hunting, Shooting, Driving, Racing, Eccentric and Extravagant Exploits By Nimrod. With Numerous Illustrations by H. Alken and T.J. Rawlins. London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1837. Second and enlarged edition, with additions to the text, six extra hand-colored plates and with three new plates replacing three from the first edition. Octavo (9 1/2 x 5 3/4 in; 241 x 146 mm). ix, [3], 206, [1, printer's slug], [1] pp. Additional engraved title in aquatint and eighteen hand-colored aquatint plates, including frontispiece, with tissue guards. Publisher's original pictorially gilt green cloth, expertly recased. All edges gilt. With the ownership stamp of William K. Dick of Islip, Long Island (NY) to front pastedown endpaper. Some rubbing, a few bubbles to upper board cloth, soiling to endpapers. Hinges starting yet remain firm. Withal, a very good copy. Housed in a full crimson hard-grained morocco pull-off case by the Scroll Club Bindery of New York City. "A most valuable and important book for the sporting life of the period, aptly described by Newton as 'a biography of a man that reads like a work of fiction'" (Tooley). "This is not a work of fiction, for John Mytton, a rather inglorious character for a biography, was a hard-living, hard-drinking country squire of Halston, Shropshire, capable of the utmost physical endurance, and ready to accept any wager to walk, shoot or ride against any man. Many of his feats are recorded and graphically delineated, including the climax of his folly in setting his nightshirt on fire to cure a hiccough (Martin Hardie). The Plates: 1. Well done, Neck or Nothing. 2. A Nick, or the nearest way home. 3. Wild Duck Shooting. 4. What! Never upset in a gig? 5. I wonder whether he is a good timber jumper! 6. The Meet with Lord Derby's Stag Hounds. 7. Stand and deliver. 8. Tally ho! Tally ho! 9. The Oaks Filly. 10. Light come, light go. 11. On Baronet clears nine yards of water. 12. D--n this hiccup! 13. A h-ll of a row in a hell. 14. Swims the Severn at Uppington Ferry. 15. How to cross a country comfortably after dinner. 16. Heron shooting. 17. A Squire trap, by Jove! 18. Now for the honour of Shropshire. At his death, industrialist and banker William K. Dick (1888-1953) was a director of Best Foods, Inc., president and director of the Dick Securities Corporation; and a director of Douglas Gibbons & Co., Inc.; the Eastern States Corporation; the Irving Trust Company, the National Sugar Refining Company, the Norwood and St. Lawrence Railroad, the St. Regis Paper Company, St. Regis Company, Ltd., of Canada, and the St. Regis Timber Company. His clubs included the Brook, Racquet and Tennis, Southside, National Golf Links, New York Yacht, and the Turf and Field. Tooley 67. Schwerdt 1, p. 38. Abbey, Life, 385. Martin Hardie, pp. 185-186. Prideaux, p. 326.…

"A Desirable Item" "A Most Valuable and Important Book" Third and Best Edition With Memoir of Nimrod [ALKEN, Henry, illustrator]. APPERLEY, C.J. Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire, Formerly M.P. for Shrewsbury, High sheriff for the Counties of Salup & Merioneth, and Major of the North Stropshire Yeomanry Cavalry. With Notices of His Hunting, Shooting, Driving, Racing, Eccentric and Extravagant Exploits By Nimrod. With Numerous Illustrations by H. Alken and T.J. Rawlins. Third Edition, With a Brief Memoir of Nimrod by the Author of "Handley Cross" [i.e. Robert S. Surtees]. London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1851. Third edition, the first to contain the Memoir of Nimrod by Surtees and complete with the additional text and plates from the second edition of 1837, third issue (with extra title, title, and plates dated 1851) in 1850 issue binding (with "Ackermann" at spine foot). Octavo (9 1/4 x 5 3/4 in; 235 x 146 mm). ix, [1], 218, [8, catalog] pp. Extra engraved title with plain aquatint vignette, and eighteen hand-colored aquatint plates including frontispiece, with tissue guards. Publisher's original pictorially gilt cloth with blindstamped border to upper board, vignette blocked in blind to lower. All edges gilt. Westley's of London ticket on rear paste-down. Spine ends expertly strengthened. An excellent copy. Housed in a quarter green morocco clamshell case. "This Third Edition is a desirable item to add to any collection as it is the first to contain the Life of Nimrod. Published at 25s, 'handsomely bound in cloth' (Tooley) "A most valuable and important book for the sporting life of the period, aptly described by Newton as 'a biography of a man that reads like a work of fiction'" (Tooley). "This is not a work of fiction, for John Mytton, a rather inglorious character for a biography, was a hard-living, hard-drinking country squire of Halston, Shropshire, capable of the utmost physical endurance, and ready to accept any wager to walk, shoot or ride against any man. Many of his feats are recorded and graphically delineated, including the climax of his folly in setting his nightshirt on fire to cure a hiccough (Martin Hardie). The Plates: 1. Well done, Neck or Nothing. 2. A Nick, or the nearest way home. 3. Wild Duck Shooting. 4. What! Never upset in a gig? 5. I wonder whether he is a good timber jumper! 6. The Meet with Lord Derby's Stag Hounds. 7. Stand and deliver. 8. Tally ho! Tally ho! 9. The Oaks Filly. 10. Light come, light go. 11. On Baronet clears nine yards of water. 12. D--n this hiccup! 13. A h-ll of a row in a hell. 14. Swims the Severn at Uppington Ferry. 15. How to cross a country comfortably after dinner. 16. Heron shooting. 17. A Squire trap, by Jove! 18. Now for the honour of Stropshire. Tooley 68. Schwerdt 1, p. 39. Abbey, Life, 385 (2d ed.). Martin Hardie, pp. 185-186. Prideaux, p. 326. …

Engraved title (with vignette), title, ix, 218 pp, 8 pp. publisher's adds. With Numerous Illustrations by H. Alken and T. J. Rawlins. Large-8vo. Full wine-red morocco with gilt tooling on boards, spine and inside borders; all edges gilt. Front board loose; a little bit rubbed and slightly knocked; engraved title with small tear in the head margin (1,5 cm) and slightly foxed; with the engraved amorial exlibris of Hugh Cecil Earl of Lonsdale on front paste-down. The 1st edition of 1835 had 12 plates; three of them had been replaced by new ones in the 2nd edition of 1837 and 6 others had been added just like in this copy of the 3rd edition. John Mytton is the incarnation of everything, which distinguishes an English sportsman: fairness, never ceasing efforts of improvement, good humour at any cirumstances etc. EN. …