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Catalogue of Antiquarian Books 1700-1900

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In our Catalogue this is Booknumber V71065

Author Nimrod [Apperley,Charles J. 1778-1843]
Title MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF THE LATE JOHN MYTTON, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire .. With Notices of his Hunting, Shooting, Driving, Racing, and Extravagant Exploits, by NIMROD. With Numerous Illustrations by Alken. Reprinted from the New Sporting Magazine.
PlacePub London
Publisher Rudolph Ackermann first edition
Date 1835
Illustrations Hand-coloured aquatint plates (12), with tissue-guards, by Henry Alken.
Description Octavo modern red crushed morocco, Top Edges Gilt, original upper cover bound in, iv +[2]pp +110pp +[12] leaves of hand-coloured plates. "A most valuable and important book for the sporting life of the period .. though containing only 12 plates, this first edition is more rare, and more valued higher than the second edition" (Tooley 66 cf Schwerdt I p.38). Three plates of this edition (2, 8 and 9) did not appear in the second edition. *Apperley had been Mytton’s neighbour in Shropshire. His task "was to write the life of a man who, while he was one of the most heroic sportsmen that ever lived, was also drunken, diseased and insane .. he performed the task with admirable judgment" (Camb. History of English & American Literature XIV).
Booknumber V71065
Price Price: GBP 750.00 or USD 922.00
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