ORME, Edward

Orme's Collection of British Field Sports illustrated in Twenty Beautifully Coloured Engravings from Designs by S. Howitt

Guildford, Charles W. Traylen, Antiquarian Bookseller, [1955] (facsimile edition)/ 1807.

Oblong imperial folio, [ii] leaves (title and contents, both pictorial) plus 20 full-page colour plates (all leaves printed rectos only).

Flush-cut plain quarter cloth and card covers; a near-fine copy with the dustwrapper a little foxed, marked and creased at the edges.

'An exact facsimile of the first and only edition of one of the rarest of all sporting books' (dustwrapper).

Item #122582

Price (AUD): $250.00
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