The Sportsman S Pocket Companion Being A Striking Likeness Or Portraiture Of The Most Eminent Race

by James And Henry Roberts

$7,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

First edition. Engraved throughout. Title page and 40 plates, each with portrait of a thoroughbred, caption and record of its wins; some plates with a vignette at foot. 41 of 42 leaves. 1 vols. 8vo. Old calf, crudely repaired at spine, some plates loosened. Three plates with small marginal losses at fore edge, pl. 17 with small closed tear across text, no loss. ESTC T150352 BL; Transylvania U. ; Huth, p. 38; Podeschi 54; Loder 1632. Item

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