Ellangowan (9 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. quarter leather with marble boards, leather rubbed in areas, board hinges repaired with tape internally, 352pp, pages clean and in very good condition.

Zustand: New. In English.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 408 pages. 8.43x5.43x0.87 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: Good. 1889. No edition remarks. 352 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Some small tears to edges of contents pages. Some page corners folded. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Some additional moderate marks and staining. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 408 pages. 8.60x5.60x1.20 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. An entertaining and wide-ranging collection of nineteenth-century sporting anecdotes by the Scottish journalist and author James Glass Bertram (1824-1892), writing under his sporting pseudonym "Ellangowan". Bertram was an experienced writer on angling and field sports, and took the name Ellangowan from the fictional Scottish estate in Sir Walter Scott's Guy Mannering. Here he brings together stories, incidents and curiosities from the worlds of horse-racing and betting, pugilism, fox-hunting, angling and shooting, alongside the rather less respectable pursuits of gambling, card-playing, cock-fighting and pedestrianism. Combining accounts of celebrated sportsmen and notable contests with remarkable wagers, eccentric characters and humorous episodes, the book provides a lively picture of British sporting and gambling culture during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Published in 1889, this is the uncommon first edition, now sparsely represented in institutional collections. Sporting Anecdotes, Being Anecdotal Annals, Descriptions, Tales and Incidents, of Horse-Recaing, Betting, Card-Playing, Pugilism, Gambling, Cock-Fighting, Pedestrianism, Fox-Hunting, Angling, Shooting and Other Sports. Now First Collected and Edited by "Ellangowan". Published by Hamilton, Adams & Co, London, and Thomas D. Morison, Glasgow. Published in 1889, this is a scarce first edition, with WorldCat recording only two institutional holdings of the printed book, one of which is the British Library. A very good hardback volume, with dark blue grained morocco leather spine and corners (a little sunned to spine). The boards with marbled paper with gilt metallic rules. Spines with raised bands and gilt titles, and tooled gilt sporting motif to lower compartment. Covers with light wear and some rubbing to spines. Soundly bound. With marbled endpapers, matching covers. Text pages are bright and clean with shiny gilt top edge. With the armorial bookplate of Henry Plews, bearing the motto "Unita Fortior", to the front pastedown. This would appear very probably to be Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Plews (1836-1918), the Yorkshire-born railway executive who became General Manager of the Great Northern Railway (Ireland), and later a director of the company. Plews had a long association with Irish railways, his career dating from 1866, and also served in the Engineer and Railway Staff Corps. A later presentation inscription to the first blank is dated 1946, and has a 2cm marginal edge tear. Text in English. 352pp. Dimensions: approximately 205mm high x 145mm wide x 29mm deep. Weight: approximately 714g (unpacked).…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1889). 1889 1st edition. Small 8vo (135 x 196mm). Ppxii,388. B/w frontipiece, fold-out plan of curling rink, tail piece engraving. Dark blue cloth with gilt titles and gilt scene with stag on upper board. Slight foxing and use but a very good bright copy. OUT OF DOOR SPORTS IN SCOTLAND: Their economy and surroundings. Deer stalking, grouse shooting, salmon angling, golfing, curling, &c. With notes on the natural and sporting history of the animals of the chase, and estimates of their economic value. by "Ellangowan." . …

Cloth. Zustand: Good. First edition. A very scarce copy of this collection of sporting anecdotes by Scottish author James Glass Bertram, the first edition. The first edition of this work, a very scarce copy found in only two institutional libraries. A collection of sporting anecdotes collected and edited by 'Ellangowan', pseudonym of James Glass Bertram, concerning a great variety of sports.James Glass Bertram was a Scottish author, known as apprentice to Tait's Edinburgh Magazine. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally sound with some shelf wear and bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities, the boards soiled and marked, damp staining to the front board. Minor chipping to the head and tail of the spine, which is lightly darkened. Alan Thornton's bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are generally very clean throughout, only odd marking to the occasional leaf. Good. None (illustrator). book.…