Thomas Pearce Idstone (11 results)

Condition: Fair. 1872. No Edition Remarks. 285 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Rough-cut pages. Ex Libris plate to front pastedown. Light staining, foxing and moderate tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Moderate cracking to gutters causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached; cracking to hinges much lighter. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft splitting and crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustwrapper. 7th Edition. 258 pages + ads With twelve full-page engravings ,drawn on wood, from life, by George Earl.Dark green cloth with mastiff motif to front cover in black.Cloth is damped along leading edge front and back. No date but circa 1900.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Cocked, light tone, light edgewear, otherwise light wear. 1873 gift inscription, later owner's custom bookplate. Solid hardcover. ; Well-received collection of articles from The Field newspaper. "it is full of practical suggestions about everything of a sporting nature, from the treatment of assistants and the breaking of horses and dogs to the greasing of shooting-boots. We have descriptions of qualities and points in the best masters of hounds, huntsmen, gamekeepers, beaters; hunters, shooting-ponies, hounds, setters, retrievers; we are told the hours, wind, weather, and meals most conducive to successful sport, and how to make or where to procure the most unequalled carriages, harness, whips, guns, ammunition and dress. . Idstone has not only an appreciation of sport and country, but also of humour, of which there are many instances in these pleasant papers." - review in The Spectator, December 21, 1872, pages 1629-1630. Wonderful custom bookplate of C Gordon Booth, with bookworm reading book and ignoring the game while hunting. First Edition of this delightful collection of Victorian sporting culture, with period hunting equipment advertising in rear. ; vi, 285, 12 ad pages.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1874). (1872) 1874 2nd edition. 8vo (133 x 205mm). Ppviii,285,ads. Original green cloth gilt. Cloth used and stained. Good only. "'The Idstone Papers' were originally written for the Field Newspaper. I have consented to republish them for the following reasons: - First, the favourable and kind opinion expressed by the late Mr. Charles Dickens of the first paper ('The Agricultural Labourer'), which was submitted to him by a mutual and eminent friend; and, secondly, the repeated requests made by friends and strangers that I would give them to the pubic in a collected form." A good collection essays on a wide range of sporting and rural subjects which has stood the test of time. Contents include: Agricultural labourers; The rough rider; The First of May; 'Strictly confidential'; Shooting dress; Some old portraits; Dens and sanctums; The rat-catcher; Early morning in London; The earthstopper; The shooting pony; Whistle and whip; Old traps and spring-guns; Tom Frere the hard-riding farmer; Expecting Brown; Brown in the country; The earthstoppers' feast; The white snipe; Swans and eagles; The philosophy of missing; shooting in Alderney; Shirkers; Our Black Heath; Traps and calls; Northward; A bright October; Varied shooting; The end of the season. On beating for game: Flapper shooting; Partridge shooting; Hares; Pheasant shooting; Wild fowl; A bye day with the gun; Driving deer; The end of the season. Land values and stewards; Snipe shooting. .

2nd ed. Some foxing; title page browned; binding tight; board corners a little worn, with some wear at head & foot of spine Used - Good. Good hardback in green cloth Used - Good. Good hardback in green cloth.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1874). (1872) 1874 2nd edition. 8vo. Ppviii,285,ads. Original green cloth gilt. A very good copy. "'The Idstone Papers' were originally written for the Field Newspaper. I have consented to republish them for the following reasons: - First, the favourable and kind opinion expressed by the late Mr. Charles Dickens of the first paper ('The Agricultural Labourer'), which was submitted to him by a mutual and eminent friend; and, secondly, the repeated requests made by friends and strangers that I would give them to the pubic in a collected form." A good collection essays on a wide range of sporting and rural subjects which has stood the test of time. Contents include: Agricultural labourers; The rough rider; The First of May; 'Strictly confidential'; Shooting dress; Some old portraits; Dens and sanctums; The rat-catcher; Early morning in London; The earthstopper; The shooting pony; Whistle and whip; Old traps and spring-guns; Tom Frere the hard-riding farmer; Expecting Brown; Brown in the country; The earthstoppers' feast; The white snipe; Swans and eagles; The philosophy of missing; shooting in Alderney; Shirkers; Our Black Heath; Traps and calls; Northward; A bright October; Varied shooting; The end of the season. On beating for game: Flapper shooting; Partridge shooting; Hares; Pheasant shooting; Wild fowl; A bye day with the gun; Driving deer; The end of the season. Land values and stewards; Snipe shooting. .

Condition: Good. Second edition hard back binding in publisher's original forest green cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back and front. 8vo. 8'' x 5½''. Contains (viii), 285 pp + 18 pp illustrated advertisements. Marks to the boards, ink message inside 'To William Knight Treves, with all good wishes from his sincere friend Algy Dewaynes, for his birthday 1876.' Member of the P.B.F.A. HUNTS & GAME SHOOTING.

Hard Back. Condition: Good/poor. George Earl (illustrator). First Edition. 258 pages + 8 pages of ads + 16 pages publisher's adverts, Hardback binding in rubbed condition, Contents most pages in good, clean condition , but overall poor, as old paper repair rear of illustrated frontispiece page, split between rear of title page & contents page, a couple of minor tears, some minor marks, a loose page in publishers adverts at rear, spine looks reglued to contents at some time, did not notice any inscriptions. The most unusual part is the illustrated Victorian adverts to rear of Schultz wood gunpowder, 4 illustrations of Broughham carriage & landau's made by J. Offord., etc. Preface dated 1872, and adverts rear are typical 1870's. So a great reading copy with some great adverts, of what looks like a very 1st edition. Size: 13 x 19cm Approx.

1st ed. Owner's name on title page; a little light foxing; binding tight; green cloth a little worn on spine & at board corners; gilt title on spine worn. Articles first published in "The Field" Used - Good. Good hardback in green cloth Used - Good. Good hardback in green cloth.

8vo. 7.25 x 5.25 inches. 258 pp. + [4] pp. publisher's list. Bound in original dark green cloth, gilt; front board with black borders enclosing block of dog. A little wear to extremities, including corners and head and tail of spine and front hinge starting to crack. Scattered foxing, including flyleaves, fore edge and margins; otherwise a very good copy. Pencil underlinings, p. 20-21. Illustrated by 13 wood engraved plates, including frontispiece. Following an introduction, the book discusses the attributes of some forty breeds of dog. Thomas Pearce (1820-85), writing under the pseudonym,'Idstone,' was a clergyman, who held four curacies and then two livings, and was an authority on dogs, being a breeder of champion setters. Illustrated by George Earl (1824-1808), sportsman and artist, specialising in the painting of sporting dogs. The first edition was published 1872. NATURAL HISTORY/SCIENCE DOGS ANIMALS DOMESTIC- 19TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED NATURAL HISTORY/SCIENCE.

Eighth edition in hardback in very good condition without dust wrapper.