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AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RURAL SPORTS; OR, A COMPLETE ACCOUNT, HISTORICAL, PRACTICAL, AND DESCRIPTIVE, OF HUNTING, SHOOTING, FISHING, RACING, AND OTHER FIELD SPORTS AND ATHLETIC AMUSEMENTS OF THE PRESENT DAY -Volumes I and II by Blaine, Delabere P - 1840
by Blaine, Delabere P
AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RURAL SPORTS; OR, A COMPLETE ACCOUNT, HISTORICAL, PRACTICAL, AND DESCRIPTIVE, OF HUNTING, SHOOTING, FISHING, RACING, AND OTHER FIELD SPORTS AND ATHLETIC AMUSEMENTS OF THE PRESENT DAY -Volumes I and II
by Blaine, Delabere P
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1840. complete in two volumes illustrated by six hundred engravings on wood by R. Branston. Volume I pp. xv; 608 pages, volume II pp.609 - 1240. Elegant full green calf binding, ornate gilt tooling to the five spine compartments, leather spine labels, some general marking and rubbing to both volumes, vol. II with a scuff to the leather on the spine, [please see image] , joints remain firm. Contents clean and tight, matching marble endpapers and marbled fore-edges, no foxing, no inscriptions. A very good first edition bound as two.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Branston, R. Landseer, Dickes, Etc.. 8vo. Book.
- Bookseller Loe Books (GB)
- Illustrator Branston, R. Landseer, Dickes, Etc.
- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition No Dust Jacket
- Edition First Edition
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans
- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 1840
- Size 8vo