Sport.

£750 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

A handsome example of this illustrated sporting classic, with chapters on fox hunting, salmon fishing, covert shooting and deer stalking. With excellent provenance for Evelyn Boscawen, 7th Viscount of Falmouth. Édition de Luxe; 4to (28.5 x 22.5 cm); 56 plates and tipped-in illustrations, including folding frontispiece, dated gift inscription in pen to front free endpaper recto, old bookseller's label to rear pastedown; contemporary red morocco gilt for Foyle of London, covers with gilt panel-design incorporating sporting motifs, gilt spine in 6 compartments, all edge gilt, extremities a little rubbed, covers slightly marked, minor spotting to endpapers, very good; x, [4], 215, [1]pp.

• Binding: Hardcover

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