Thoughts on Hunting. In a series of familiar letters to a friend

by Peter Beckford

$450 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

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Third edition, with half-title. Engraved frontispiece by Bartolozzi after Cipriani before half-title; 2 engraved plates at end. 360 pp. 1 vols. 4to 8-3/8 x 6-1/2 inches . Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, hinges started, but a nice tall uncut copy. Signed Lloyd Kenyon 1818 on flyleaf and J. Lloyd on half-title. Schwerdt I, p. 56; Gee, Sportsman's Library p. 8 The corner-stone of a huntsman's library ; Biscotti, Six Centuries

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