Cook Colonel John (10 results)

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good Condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. New Edition. A new edition with coloured plates after pictures by Wolstenholme, Alken and Others. Dust jacket worn, repaired, enclosed in glassine. Good only. Clipping of review of this book pasted in back. Book plate inside front cover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10". 159 pages. Full refund if not satisfied.

Hardback. Condition: VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 1st Edition. Brown cloth with black spine, Endpapers heavily browned. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age.

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1922). (ND 1826) 1922 new edition. 4to (195 x 262mm). Ppxv,144. B/w and colour illustrated plates. Introduction by Lord Willoughby de Broke. Black cloth spine, titled in gilt, to orange boards, titled in gilt, motif of fox head mounted on plaque to upper board. Slightly rubbed and used, foxed. Good copy. Written by a Master of Fox-hounds in the early 1800s, Lord Willoughby de Broke declared (in 1922) that, "a modern Master of Fox-hounds would do well to follow every word of advice it contains." .

pp. xv, (i), 144. Coloured frontispiece, 10 plates, mostly coloured. Quarter black cloth over orange boards, uncut and unopened, the cloth on the boards surface eroded by silverfish, otherwise a very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Wolstenholme, Alken and others (illustrator). 1st Edition. 4to, pp. xv, 144, half red leather over red grained cloth, gilt lettering and devices to spine, extremities rubbed but overall bright, interior with foxing, more noticeable on opening and closing pages and edges, with eleven illustrations, binding tight, an attractive copy.

first edition super octavo three quarter red leather with marbled boardfs and gilt lettering and motif to spine, marbled eps, xvi + 292pp, illus VG (light wear to extremities, moderate foxing primarily to prelims) A tidy copy with the bookplate of noted Australian Sir daniel Cooper to front pastedown.

First edition. Bound in red 19th century half morocco binding. Spine is decorated with raised bands and gilt stamping. All edges are gilt. Marbled endpapers. A very good copy, some spotting and corners are a little scuffed. Three steel engravings. "A scarce and highly valued work" (Schwerdt).

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

London, printed for the author, by William Nicol., 1826, in-8°, xvi pp + 292 pp + 3 lithographic plates (including the frontispiece). Uncut copy. Bound in contemporary unassuming paper covered boards, paper at spine worn and partially missing. Inside with some slight foxing (sic), especially at the endpapers. Still a good copy of the original first edition.

London: Printed for the author by William Nicol . and sold by Rowe and Waller. 1826. Royal 8vo. Late 19th-century red morocco, boards panelled in gilt with 2 triple-filleted borders and corner pieces, spine richly gilt in compartments, lettered directly in gilt in one, rich gilt turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, red silk place marker; pp. xvi, 292, with a steel engraved frontispiece and two plates; extremities slightly rubbed, hinges splitting at head; some variable spotting but overall very good.First edition, handsomely bound, of this treatise on foxhunting and hound management, addressed to "a young sportsman, about to undertake a hunting establishment".The author, John Cook, served as a colonel in the 28th Regiment of Light Dragoons, a cavalry unit raised in March 1795 and disbanded in 1802.The twelve-page list of subscribers preceding the text serves as a veritable "who's who" of Regency England.