A SET OF TWELVE FOX HUNTINGS, from Drawings by Mr. F. C. Turner
[London]: Knights, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill, 1835. Second edition (first published by Gosden in 1833, with ten plates). Oblong 8vo. (14 x 22 cm). 14 leaves, the title leaf, a page of descriptions for the plates, and 12 full-page plates (“Printed from Zinc by Day & Haghe”). The cover prints the title, captions for the plates, “Proofs,” and the price (“Six Shillings”). Biscotti Fox-Hunting, p.378. OCLC locates a single copy (Princeton, the plates colored). Original cloth-backed printed wrappers); paper brittle and so browned as to be “burned.” Good copy only of a rare set of proofs for the Turner plates. Item #67804
Price: $100.00
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