The National Sports of Great Britain
$16,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books
First edition
Contemporary straight-grained red morocco, covers with wide roll-tool border in gilt and blind and central emblem of a stag within a cartouche of foliage and flowers, raised bands forming eight compartments, lettered in second compartment, the others with an elaborate repeating stag decoration in gilt, gilt edges. First edition of Alken's most important work, offering a spirited discussion of outdoor amusements, with hand coloured aquatint engravings of horse racing, angling,
- Binding: Leather
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