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Published by London: Elliot Stock, 1881, 1881
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
[Hawking, Hunting and Heraldry] FACSIMILE EDITION, first impression. Quarto (30 x 24cm), pp.34; [176]. Printed on fine hand-made paper. Publisher's full vellum, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and blind decoration to boards. All edges untrimmed. Internally crisp and clean, with some offsetting to endpapers, as usual. Binding shows some minor wear and bumping. Near fine.
Published by Elliot Stock, London, 1881
Seller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No DJ. Fascimile Reprint/First Thus. Fascimile Reprint/First Thus. Hardcover. Finely produced facsimile of the edition printed at Saint Albans by the Schoolmaster-Printer in 1486. This work was the earliest British sporting book, a cornerstone to any sporting collection. Overall, a rather handsome copy. Light shelf/edge wear, bottom tips bumped and through, light toning to binding (focused at spine), color heraldric crest at front board (onlay) and front pastedown, light toning at textblock edges, else tight, bright and unmarred. Quarterbound, paper vellum spine, pale blue paper boards. 4to. 32pp plus np fascimile.