Sporting Anecdotes Original And Selected Including Numerous Characteristic Portraits Of

by Pierce Egan

$750 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

Second Edition “Considerably Enlarged and Improved”. With two hand-colored plates one folding by R. Cruikshank and one by Roberts after S. Alken, three in black and white, and numerous text illustrations. 592 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Drab boards printed in black, untrimmed. Rebound with new spine, preserving original printed spine, new endpapers, preserving a ticket of Wright, Agricultural & Sporting Library, 51 Haymarket. Sopne and boards with old soiling;

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