The Sportsman's Cabinet; or, a Correct Delineation of the Various Dogs Used in the Sports of the Field, Including the Canine Race in General

by Dogs, William Taplin

$2,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First Edition. Two engraved titles, 26 engraved plates by John Scott after P. Reinagle, A.R.A. and 23 wood-engraved vignettes by Thomas Bewick. viii, 276, 2 ; 310, 2, index , 2, ads pp. 2 vols. 4to. Contemporary diced brown calf, marbled edges, neatly rebacked, with original spine laid down. Some foxing to plates as usual. Schwerdt II, p. 248; Hubbard, The Literature of British Dogs, p. 27-29; Biscotti, Six Centuries of Foxhunting, p. 367. Item

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