THE WARWICK WOODLANDS OR THINGS AS THEY WERE, TEN YEARS AGO.
[Herbert, Henry William] Frank Forester.
Philadelphia [PA]: G.B. Zieber & Co., 1845. First edition. Black lettered brown paperwraps (rear wrapper lacking; spine perished).12mo.; iv, 5-168 pp. Old tidelines to lower margin of the front wrapper, extending into the text some few pages. Small paper reinforcement to inside outer corner of front wrap, partially obscuring one of the publisher's ads. Reinforcement to inner edge of rear page, where there is some loss of text to the beginnings of eight lines on the penultimate page. Housed in a custom half red leather and red cloth clamshell box. Gilt stamping and raised bands on spine of box. One of only a few copies in wrappers. A tender copy. (Item ID: 55150)
$3,500.00
Clipped signature laid in, "Ever your most sincere & affectionate / Henry Wm. Herbert / May God Bless & Preserve you. / Portland - October 16th 1839".Bookplate of William Mitchell Van Winkle on inside cover of box. Van Winkle was the author, with the assistance of David A. Randall, of the Henry William Herbert bibliography. The bibliography lists this work as "Herbert's finest sporting novel."BAL 8085; Gee "The Sportsman's Library" 75; Phillips, "A Bibliography of American Sporting Books 175; Van Winkle and Randall 14; Wright 1:1181