New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1903. Hardcover. 12mo. A new edition. Red cloth with paper spine label. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Contents clean and the binding is tight and square. Paper spine label darkened and chipped at one side, corners of boards bumped and a few faint..... More
London: Metheun and Co., 1903. Hardcover. 12mo. A new edition. Red cloth with paper spine label. Book slightly cocked, sporadic foxing throughout, otherwise a good clean copy with a few scratches to the boards and light bumps. 50 illustrations in colour. The Illustrated Pocket Library of Plain and Coloured Books..... More
London: Ward, Lock, & Co., 1877. Hardcover. P.l., xvi, 344pp. [14] ads., 16p. publisher's catalog. New edition, enlarged and revised. With illustrations by John Proctor. With 54 plates engraved on steel, and numerous woodcut illustrations. Publisher's original green illustrated cloth, lettered and decorated in black and gilt to boards and..... More
12mo. [1859-1868] Foxhunting and steeple chase diary. Bound in black pebbled leather, marbled endpapers. 180x120mm. Approximately 150 pages of handwritten details of hunts and chases, much of the activity being in Sussex and East Kent. The hunts mentioned most often are the Southdown, the Crawley & Horsham, and the East..... More
London: Horace Cox, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 120pp., [32]p. ads, 28p. pub. catalogue. Original illustrated cloth boards, soiled and bumped and faded around spine and edges and damp spotting to the front cover. Bookplate to paste-down, with name, address and date to the head of the title page. Contents..... More
London: William Reeves, 1830. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Rebound with original ribbed spine mounted and original boards and endpapers; marbled endpapers and paper to boards; gilt seal to front board. Illustrated with hand tinted engravings. Light wear to edges of borads; bookseller's ticket to..... More
London: Thomas Tegg, 1845. Hardcover. 8vo. Pl. lxvii, 420. Half red morocco over red linen with gilt title to spine and gilt devices to compartments. Top edge gilt. Top edge of front board and spine sunned, otherwise a near fine copy. Bound by Bayntun. From the collection of Canadian literary..... More
London: Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverie Street, 1853. John Leech. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Ocatavo, 408pp. Half-title present with 13 hand coloured steel engravings and numerous in-text illustrations on wood. Original ribbed burgundy cloth with gilt title and illustrated in gilt spine and front board. Spine with light fade and..... More
London: Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverie Street, 1860. John Leech. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Ocatavo, pp. [x], 406pp. Engraved half-title and 13 hand coloured steel engravings and numerous in-text illustrations. Original ribbed burgundy cloth with gilt title and illustrated in gilt spine and front board. Spine with light fade and..... More
London: Bradbury, Agnew and co., 1880. John Leech; H. K. Browne; W. T. Maud. Hardcover. 8vo. No date, c. 1880. 6 volumes. 87 Coloured steel engravings and numerous in-text illustrations, mainly by Leech. All plates present, with tissue guards. Bound in the publisher's decorative illustrated red cloth blocked in black..... More
Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1892. Hardcover. Short, oblong 4to. Pp. viii, [1] 20, 5pp adverts. 10 chromolithographed plates. In the publisher's original maroon cloth with gilt lettering to the front board. Ex-library, with the institutional bookplate of the Fraser Institute, Montreal, no other markings except for a small circular..... More
London: Vinton & Company, Limited, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Crown 8vo. 2 vols. Pp. xx, 454; xii, 499. Large folding map of The Essex Hunt in volume 1 in excellent condition. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering and an image of a dog stamped in gilt to the front board..... More