Silk and Scarlet
London, Rogerson & Tuxford, 1859 (first edition).
Small octavo, [ii], viii, 398, 8 (publisher's catalogue) pages with an illustration plus 6 plates (one folding), a frontispiece portrait and a title page vignette.
Blind-decorated red cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, all edges sprinkled red; cloth a little flecked and marked, with the spine sunned and lightly worn at the head; occasional foxing; leading edge of the folding plate creased, with a few tiny tears; minor signs of use and handling; overall a very good copy.
Henry Hall Dixon (1822-1870), sporting writer known as 'The Druid', was 'an interested spectator of all kinds of sport, and was emphatically one of those lookers-on who see most of the game. He had not much in common with the ordinary turfite ... yet, as an exponent of sporting tradition, he has no rival, though all sporting journalists have lit their torches at The Druid's fire. His sympathies were nearly universal, and, inclining always to take a kindly view of human nature, he studiously avoided writing a word to cause pain' ('Dictionary of National Biography').
Item #122867
Price (AUD):
$125.00