APPERLEY, Charles James.

£1,250 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Life of a Sportsman. First edition, attractively bound by Riviere, of this vivid portrayal of 19th-century British sporting life. This edition is illustrated by Alken and includes hand-coloured aquatint scenes of fox hunting, horse racing, and four-in-hand driving."Apperley's expert knowledge and social status made him an invaluable recruit to the sporting press of the time, and he may even be said to have created the role of gentleman hunting correspondent" (ODNB). The Life of a Sportsman was first serialized for the Sporting Magazine.

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