£200 - £300
THE SPORTING REPOSITORY containing Horse-Racing, Hunting, Coursing, Shooting, Archery, Trotting and Tandem Matches, Cocking, Pedestrianism, Pugilism, Anecdotes on Sporting Subjects, interspersed with Essays, Tales, and a great variety of Miscellaneous Articles. London, Kegan Paul, 1904. Two volumes, large 4to, one of only 50 copies on hand-made paper, this being number 45, 22 hand-coloured plates with tissue-guards by Henry Alken and others, attractive gilt-vellum spines and blue boards. A fine reprint of the rare 'Sporting Repository' of 1822, these volumes are not only handsome, but are of continuing interest to the sportsman, and to anyone interested in Regency England. Schwerdt II, p212; Biscotti, Six Centuries of Foxhunting, p348 (2)
Internally good, half-title with ink inscription, boards with minor marks and rubbing, a nice set
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