Wildrake Ed (2 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. A profusely illustrated collection of anecdotes concerning hunting, with maps and colour plates. An illustrated work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Illustrated with six colour plates, sixteen plates in half-tone, eight hunting maps and a further twenty-one in-text illustrations. Collated, complete. A new edition of this interesting work on hound hunting in Britain, comprising of memoirs of masters of hounds and notices of the crack riders and characteristics of the hunting countries of England. Edited by Walter Shaw Sparrow, who also provided an introduction for this volume. Illustrated throughout after James Seymour, by Thomas Weaver, T. Woodward, Wildrake, H. Alken, R.B. Davis, Hancock, W.P. Hodges, J. Ramsay, Thomas Phillips, F.C. Turner, John Doyle, and Thomas Bewick. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally fairly smart, with fading to the spine and small marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with the occasional spot, and some offsetting to the end papers. Very Good. Thomas Weaver; T. Woodward; Wildrake; et al. (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 1843, 2nd edition. Large Octavo. iv, 300pp. Fully illustrated as per list, including engraved title, plates, etc. Original blind-stamped cloth, re-cased with spine laid-on. Gilt titles. Ink stain to lower half of upper board. New end papers and blanks. A few ink spots to text-block. Otherwise a 'Very Good' copy.…