FOREIGN FIELD SPORTS, FISHERIES, SPORTING ANECDOTES &c. &c.From drawings by Messrs. Howitt, Atkinson, Clark, Manskirch &c.

CLARK, John Heaviside, and others

Published by Edward Orme, Printseller and Publisher to His Majesty, and His R.H. The Prince Regent, Bond Street, corner of Brook Street, London. 1814 First Edition.

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Containing one hundred plates, with a supplement for New South Wales containing 10 plates. Quarto, 160 pp. of letterpress, unpag.,with 100 handcoloured aquatints of hunting scenes and the 1813 New South Wales Supplement bound-in at the rear, with 10 aquatint plates, some watermarked "1811". A fine copy of the early issue, in a handsome original binding of half dark green morocco, with spine in gilt compartments and gilt decoration, marbled boards, eps and edges, some light shelfwear. . The very scarce first edition of one of the most notable books from the golden age of the handcoloured illustrated book. The ten plates of the NSW Supplement "are without question the most attractive and sympathetic of the early European depictions of the Aboriginal inhabitants." (Wantrup.) The first published book on the Australian Aborigines.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: FOREIGN FIELD SPORTS, FISHERIES, SPORTING ANECDOTES &c. &c.From drawings by Messrs. Howitt, Atkinson, Clark, Manskirch &c.
• Publisher: Edward Orme, Printseller and Publisher to His Majesty, and His R.H. The Prince Regent, Bond Street, corner of Brook Street, London. 1814 First Edition.