SPORTING SCENES AND SUNDRY SKETCHES; Being the Miscellaneous Writings of J. Cypress, Jr. Edited

by Frank Forester i.e., Henry William Herbert by William P. Hawes

$250 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition

New York: Gould, Banks & Co., 1842. First edition. 12mo. Two volumes bound in one: vi, 241; vi, 231 pp. Engraved plates; half-title to each volume. The first appearance of Herbert's pseudonym Frank Forester. BAL 8068 “Unsold sheets, folded, untrimmed, measuring 7 7/8 x 4 ¾ inches, remained unbound for years and copies were offered during the later years of the 19th century as ‘large paper copies’” . Phillips, p. 163.

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