Description
Beckford (Peter) Thoughts on Hunting, engraved frontispiece and additional pictorial title, letterpress title with author's name as "William" and wood-engraved vignette by Thomas Bewick, 9 engraved plates, one folding, occasional spotting and browning, contemporary diced calf, gilt, a little rubbed, rebacked preserving old gilt spine, Albion Press, 1810; another edition, half-title, engraved frontispiece and folding plate, title with wood-engraved pictorial border and vignettes, some by Bewick, advertisement leaf at end, title browned, engraved bookplate of John Clements Waterhouse Madden and with contemporary ink inscription to him, later calf stamped in gilt and blind, spine gilt, 1820, 8vo (2)
Lot 17
Beckford (Peter) Thoughts on Hunting, contemporary diced calf, Albion Press, 1810 & another edition of 1820, 8vo (2)
Estimate: £200 - 300
Description
Beckford (Peter) Thoughts on Hunting, engraved frontispiece and additional pictorial title, letterpress title with author's name as "William" and wood-engraved vignette by Thomas Bewick, 9 engraved plates, one folding, occasional spotting and browning, contemporary diced calf, gilt, a little rubbed, rebacked preserving old gilt spine, Albion Press, 1810; another edition, half-title, engraved frontispiece and folding plate, title with wood-engraved pictorial border and vignettes, some by Bewick, advertisement leaf at end, title browned, engraved bookplate of John Clements Waterhouse Madden and with contemporary ink inscription to him, later calf stamped in gilt and blind, spine gilt, 1820, 8vo (2)