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More imagesSporting Incidents: being a Collection of Sixteen Plates done in Color with numerous smaller Cuts representing the most important Events of the Track Field and Road
W.S. Vanderbilt Allen; Colonel William Jay; H. Milford Steele
Language: English
Published by Henry T. Thomas, New York, 1893
- Hardcover
Seller: Panoply Books, Lambertville, NJ, U.S.A.Panoply Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Limited Edition. LIMITED EDITION, No. 98 of 1000 Copies. Complete. ** Elephant size volume features custom three-quarter leather binding with red cloth on covers, as well as handsome colored marble design on endpapers. Rounded spine has gilt and five raised bands. Book displays gentle commensurate wea…r and aging. Covers exhibit overall scuffing and staining, as well as a small black splash near head edge on back cover, that also displays some lighter brown staining in an area of 3". Boards are exposed at bumped corners, and show commensurate overall edgewear, with some darkening to leather around corners, as well as fading of edges. Covers occasionally show faint white staining, more significant over 9" along front shoulder. Spine displays gentle rubbing along shoulders and at ends, with some chipping to foot, and faint white staining. Binding is secure overall, and is reinforced. Apparent edge toning on some pages is not actual but result of shadow on photo. Front endpaper as well as first Illustrated Title Page are partially detached from textblock, along approx. 12". Illustrated title pages show gentle toning and minimal occasional smudges and foxing. Title page shows a little marginal foxing. Fore edge of title page is cut shorter than Introduction page resulting in a shadow along edge of Introduction page. Text pages show occasional marginal foxing, as do blank sides of illustration pages, and some edgewear. Illustration plates are well preserved and vibrant, with gentle toning and minimal, rare marginal foxing. Illustration plates have some bleed-through on blank side. Last two illustration plates show heavier marginal foxing that occasionally goes into illustration. Interior is gently age-toned with occasional marginal foxing and edgewear. Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks. Textblock edges have gilt along head, and display commensurate age-toning and wear along fore and foot edges. Book may exhibit additional minor signs of age or wear. ** Pages not numbered. 16 Plates + text pages. 18 x 23 inches. ** Lavishly illustrated with 16 full-color heliographic plates and 16 B&W vignettes. All plates present. Includes the covers for parts 2, 3 and 4, bound with plates and text. Cover calls for 44 plates but the project was never finished. ** This is a magnificent celebration of sporting, with the most stunning scenes of hunting and horseback riding. Are featured, horseback riding as well as tandem riding, champion stakes, hunts, polo, and much more. Each sport is described in a text preceding the plates, with advice as to its practice, or fascinating historical anecdotes. ** W.S. Vanderbilt Allen (1860-1931) was an American who was grandson to Cornelius Vanderbilt. He trained in Paris with Gerome and Claude Monet. ** Colonel William Jay (1841-1915) was an American soldier and lawyer. A noted horseman, he was the first president and one of the founders of the Coaching Club in 1876, which was the pioneer coaching club at the time. ** EDITION POINTS: Limited Edition, No 98 of 1000 Copies. ** Postage for oversized and international shipping will be calculated by size and weight. AbeBooks shipping quotes are ESTIMATES only. W.S. Vanderbilt Allen (illustrator).
More imagesPublished by Henry T. Thomas, New York, 1893
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.Sequitur Books
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Condition: Used - Good
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Four parts, complete (all published) bound as one. Large folio, 61 x 48 cm. Bound in 3/4 tan leather over marbled boards. Leather spine labels with gilt. Original color pictorial wrappers bound in. Some conservation efforts to wrappers, particularly of pa…rt 1. Title vignette, 16 vignettes, as well as 16 color heliographic plates by W. S. Vanderbilt Allen. Library perforated stamp on title page, limitation page and on bottom right margin of the color plate pages. Bottom blank corner of plates 1, 2 and 10 chipped with loss to margin corner. "The cover title calls for 'A collection of Forty-four plates of Coaching, Hunting, Amateur Races and Horses in Show Rings' but the project was never finished." - Christies, The Le Vivier Library of Sporting Books and Modern First Editions30 October 2012, London, Sale 4354. Vanderbilt Allen was a grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt and was trained in Paris by Gerome and Claude Monet. Refs: Bennett, p. 101. Scarce portfolios. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
More imagesPublished by Henry T.Thomas, New York, 1893
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerOne of 1000 copies, unnumbered. One of 1000 copies, unnumbered. Illustrations by W. S. Vanderbilt Allen. 16 heliotype plates. Letterpress title page, contents list, introduction, and descriptive leaves for each plate. 1 vols. Atlas folio. A colorful and celebrated work, in the original four part portfolios, comprising sixteen pl…ates and descriptive text, all that were issued of the projected forty-four plates mentioned on the cover. "A good account of sporting activities in the Gay Nineties . they are the only pictorial representation we have of this period" (Gee). Uncommon. Plate 1.: The Meet at the Coaching House. Coach of Colonel William Jay Plate 2.: The Westchester Hunt. Mr Theodore A. Havemyer, Jr. Master Plate 3.: Tandem Shooting Cart of Mr. Oliver H.P. Belmont Plate 4.: Races of the American Hunt and Pony Racing Association for the Championship Stakes Plate 5.: The Road Coach Acquidneck Plate 6.: The Queens County Hunt Plate 7.: Judging Hackney Stallions, National Horse Show Association Plate 8.: Polo Match for Westchester Cups, between Meadow Brook and Rockaway Plate 9.: The Tuxedo Road Coach Republic Plate 10.: Gymkhana Races, Rockaway Hunting Club. The Umbrella Race Plate 11.: The High Jump, National Horse Show Association Plate 12.: Pony Race for Polo Ponies at Hempstead Farms Plate 13.: Mr. T, Suffern Tailer's Coach at the Country Club Plate 14.: Steeplechase at Hempstead Farms Plate 15.: The Essex County Hounds Plate 16.: The Meadow Brook Hunt. Mr. Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., Master. Bennett, p. 101; Gee, Sportsman's Library, p. 127. OCLC: 27086235 In the original four pictorial board portfolios, buckram spine. Some light edgewear and chipping, plate 16 slightly stained at two corners. In cloth box Illustrations by W. S. Vanderbilt Allen. 16 heliotype plates. Letterpress title page, contents list, introduction, and descriptive leaves for each plate. 1 vols. Atlas folio.
