Nimrod Life Of A Sportsman

NIMROD (= Charles James APPERLEY). Memoirs of the life of John Mytton, Esq., of Halston, Shropshire; formerly M. P. for Shrewsbury, high sheriff for the counties of Salop and Merioneth, and major of the north Shropshire yeomanry cavalry, with notices of his shooting, driving, racing, eccentric, and extravagant exploits. London, Rudolph Ackerman, Eclipse Sporting Gallery & N. S. M Office, 1837.
Second enlarged edition on the life of John Mytton (1796-1834), illustrated with lively and colourful aquatint plates with huntingscenes and transport by carriage through the country side and several animated scenes a.o. in ballrooms. It was written by the famous British sportsman and sportsjournalist Charles James Apperley (1778-1843), who wrote under the name "Nimrod". He published articles on his hunting tours in <I>The Sporting Magazine</I>, the<I> Quarterly Review</I>, and <I>The New Sporting Magazine</I>. The first edition was published in 1835 with twelve plates. The present second edition contains 18 aquatints: 6 plates extra and 3 new plates replace 3 of the old plates from the first edition, making 9 new plates in all. Tooley: "A most valuable and important book for the sporting life of the period''.
Fine copy, with bookplate of Harry Lawrence, Bradfer Lawrence pasted on inside frontcover.- (Neatly re-backed with the original spine laid down; some sl. foxing; without the advertisements 8 pp.).
Abbey, <I>Life in England</I>, 385; Schwerdt I, p. 38; Tooley, 67.

8vo. Contemporary burgundy morocco, gilt & ribbed spine with gilt foxheads and horseshoes title lettered in gold, both covers with gilt tooling and gilt foxheads as cornerpieces, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, (RODT & SON). Engraved title with aquatint vignette of Mytton's tomb, with 18 handcoloured aquatints after designs by H. Alken & T.J. Rawlins, aquatinted by E. Duncan and H. Alken with hunting scenes and social events. IX, (1), 206, (1) pp.

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Nimrod (d. i. Charles J. Apperley). The Life of a Sportsman. London, George Routledge and Sons, and L. C. Gent, 1874.
Seltene zweite, um zwei Tafeln vermehrte Ausgabe. - "Considered by many to be the premier coloured plate sporting book in the 19th century, by others as sharing this honour with Jorrocks's Jaunts" (Tooley). - Einband etw. berieben u. bestoßen, sonst gutes, tlw. unaufgeschnittenes Exemplar aus der Bibliothek des Publizisten und Aeronauten Victor Silberer, der selbst zahlr. Handbücher zu verschiedenen Sportarten herausgab. - Tooley 65; Schwerdt I, 37. -

4°. Mit 38 (inkl. Titel) kolor. Aquatintatafeln von Henry Alken. VI S., 1 Bl., 402 S., 1 Bl., Roter illustr. OLwd.-Bd.

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SPORT - JAGD - REITEN - APPERLEY, C.J. ( NIMROD ) - ALKEN, HENRY. The life of a sportsman by Nimrod. With thirty-six coloured illustrations by Henry Alken. In two volumes. VOL. I. Bd.1 (v.2). London, Downey and Co., 1901.
Eins von 60 nummerierten und signierten Exemplaren dieses Klassikers über den Jagd- und Reitsport. Signiert: B.W. Willett. - Die kolorierten Tafeln farbfrisch und jeweils mit der schwarz/weißen Darstellung des identischen Motives zusammen eingebunden ( Reit- und Jagddarstellungen ).. - "Printed by T. and A. Constable, (late) Printers to Her Majesty at the Edinburgh University Press". - Sauber und in sehr guter Erhaltung.

XI, 167 SS. m. 22 farb. u, 22 sch./w. Tafeln, gr.- 4°, dunkelgrüner Halblederbd. auf 4 Bünden m. hellgrünen Leinen-Deckelbezügen u. farb. Rsch. m. goldgepr. Rtit (min. fl.).

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Nimrod and Charles Apperly: The Life of a Sportsman, John Lehmann London, 1948.
OSU leichte Randläsuren, Seitenbräunung, in engl. Sprache -

384 S. geb. m. OSU

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