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TWO VOLUMES in a FINE BINDING. Please NOTE: With 6 text pages & 2 plates LACKING in volume 2, see below for details. Full title as follows: "A Sporting Tour Through Various Parts of France, in the Year 1802: Including a Concise Description of the Sporting Establishments, Mode of Hunting, & Other Field-Amusements, as Practised in That Country. With General Observations on the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, Husbandry, & Commerce: Strictures on the Customs & Manners of the French People; With a View of the Comparative Advantages of Sporting in France & England. In a Series of Letters to the Right Hon. The Earl of Darlington. To Which is Prefixed, an Account of French Wolf-Hunting, in Two Volumes". FIRST EDITION. "Illustrated with upwards of eighty correct & picturesque delineations from original drawings from nature, by Mr. Bryant, & other eminent artists." Contains engraved portrait frontispiece in Vol. 1, & two engraved title pages with vignettes. With a total of 52 (of 54) aquatint/engraved plates (10 folding, with 5 folding in each volume; vol. 1 frontispiece; & with 2pp of musical manuscript), & several small vignette engravings in the text. Rear of volume 2 contains binding list, & front section of volume 1 contains full description of plates. NOTE: Volume 2 LACKS two preliminary leaves - BOTH the folding frontispiece plate, & half-title page preceding this plate; plus also LACKS 6 internal TEXT PAGES (pages 39-44 inclusive), PLUS the plate which should've been opposite p.43 (roughly torn, stubs & inner portions of all pages remain). Former owner's tiny/neat detailed pencil notes on first blank of volume 1, which read (in part): "Thomas Thornton of Thornville-Royal Yorkshire - revived falconry - well known sportsman made a sporting tour in the highlands of Scotland in 1786 & published an account of it in 1804. Born 1757, died 1823 in Paris. Seems to have been very rich. William Henry Vane, 3rd Earl of Darlington, of Raby Castle Co., Durham, 5th Baron & 2nd Viscount Barnard K.G. Lord Lieut of Durham was born 1766 & died 1842. His first wife was the daughter of the 6th & last Duke of (Betton). Lord Darlington's great grandmother was a daughter of the 1st Duke of Cleveland (son of Charles II by Barbara Villiers) & Lord Darlington was in 1827 created Mayor of Cleveland & in 1823 Duke of Cleveland & Baron Raby. He was a whig & a great patron of the Turf & was Master of the Raby hunt from 1800 to 1838. The Raby hunt composed the area now hunted by the Zettard, the Bedele, & the Bodsworth. Lord Darlington got his Dukedom in return for his support of the Reform Bill. His great wealth came from coal. This Dukedom of Cleveland of the 2nd creation became extinct in 1891 on the death of the 4th Duke. Raby Castle went to his kinsman Lord Barnard & is now owned by the 10th Baron Barnard" (pencil notation continues with details regarding Colonel Thornton, also marginal pencil notations to a few pages). With matching bookplates of former owner (Archie Loyd) affixed to front pastedowns. Archie Kirkman Loyd (1847-1922) was a British barrister & twice Member of Parliament for Abingdon. In 1892 Loyd was appointed a Queen's Counsel. FINE BINDING. Beautifully bound in matching red morocco half-leather over marbled boards, bright gilt lettering & elaborate gilt design in compartments to spines, raised bands, gilt-ruled boards, top edges gilt, fore-edges untrimmed, marbled endpapers. Binding is NEAR FINE. Overall condition of the two volumes is VERY GOOD. Volume 2 lacking 2 plates & 6 text pages (as noted), varied foxing (including to plates, mostly margins), offsetting from plates, some faint marginal staining, bookplates to front pastedowns (as noted), otherwise a nice clean tight solid leatherbound set. lxvi + 168pp + index (6pp); xii + 260pp + index/errata/directions to binder (8pp). Wide margins. No ads. Heavy set of volumes (over 3kg), extra shipping may be required. RARE. Seller Inventory # 001478
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Title: A Sporting Tour Through Various Parts of ...
Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme - Paternoster-Row, & C. Chapple, Pall-Mall. Albion-Press Printed: by James Cundee, Ivy-Lane, London
Publication Date: 1806
Binding: Leather
Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition
