cook colonel john (3 Ergebnisse)

pp. xv, (i), 144. Coloured frontispiece, 10 plates, mostly coloured. Quarter black cloth over orange boards, uncut and unopened, the cloth on the boards surface eroded by silverfish, otherwise a very good copy.

London, printed for the author, by William Nicol., 1826, in-8°, xvi pp + 292 pp + 3 lithographic plates (including the frontispiece). Uncut copy. Bound in contemporary unassuming paper covered boards, paper at spine worn and partially missing. Inside with some slight foxing (sic), especially at the endpapers. Still a good copy of the original first edition.

London: Printed for the author by William Nicol . and sold by Rowe and Waller. 1826. Royal 8vo. Late 19th-century red morocco, boards panelled in gilt with 2 triple-filleted borders and corner pieces, spine richly gilt in compartments, lettered directly in gilt in one, rich gilt turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, red silk place marker; pp. xvi, 292, with a steel engraved frontispiece and two plates; extremities slightly rubbed, hinges splitting at head; some variable spotting but overall very good.First edition, handsomely bound, of this treatise on foxhunting and hound management, addressed to "a young sportsman, about to undertake a hunting establishment".The author, John Cook, served as a colonel in the 28th Regiment of Light Dragoons, a cavalry unit raised in March 1795 and disbanded in 1802.The twelve-page list of subscribers preceding the text serves as a veritable "who's who" of Regency England.