The National Sports of Great Britain ... With descriptions in English and French ... Chasse et Amusemens Nationaux de la Grande Bretagne

by Henry Thomas Alken

$30,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

Contemporary black straight-grained morocco, the covers elaborately panelled in gilt, the spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second compartment, the others with elaborate repeat pattern built up from small tools, gilt turn ins, cream-glazed endpapers, red morocco inner hinges, gilt edges A fine copy of Alken's most important work ... It must always form the cornerstone of any Alken collection Tooley . The plates and text between them

• Binding: Leather

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