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1804 First Edition "Sporting Anecdotes" by An Amateur Sportsman

Item Details

Title and Author/Editor Sporting Anecdotes; Original and Select: Including Characteristic Sketches of Eminent Persons who Have Appeared on the Turf. With an Interesting Selection of the Most Extraordinary Events Which have Transpired in the Sporting World; A Correct Description of The Animals of Chase, and of Every Other Subject Connected with the Various Diversions of the Field (An Amateur Sportsman, pseudonym for Egan Pierce)
Genre Biography, Autobiography and Memoirs, Sports, Hunting and Fishing, Crafts and Hobbies
Type of Illustration Sixteen plates
Binding Leather
Dust Jacket No
Publisher or Printer Albion Press
Publication Year 1804
Edition Statement First Edition
Volumes 1
Additional Information This volume features all sixteen plates of which two have been incorrectly placed according to the instructions to the binder.

Condition

- wear to the cover with red rot, rubbed edges, bumped corners, split seams, soiling and fraying; writing to endpapers; foxing; fading; chipping to text pages.

Dimensions

1.5" W x 8.75" H x 5.5" D

Item #

ITMG245698

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