Fordingbridge Hunt (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A single original issue disbound from a compilation. 14 x 9 inch. As was common this had been bound without the exterior cover or end-page adverts but contains all the copy and has never been folded. About 32 pages, all on glossy paper. Well illustrated. In the title line is firstly details of the main multi-page article, followed by the name of the 'Girls in Pearls' front page portrait, and then some other articles of interest. If you would like more information about any item please ask seller. Interior in nice clean condition, external hinge edge may be rough. 14 x 9 inch, will be despatched with board protection.

pp. (viii), 248, (v)-vi Index Hants and Wilts, 88 Salisbury, 49-232 Bristol, 20 Advertisements. Quarter calf, a very good copy.

single slip broadside (approx. 250 x 90 mm), drop head title below a woodcut illustration, mounted at head to an album leaf, browned except for the top eighth, creased below woodcut, a number of tiny holes with slight effect on the title and imprint . A humourous ballad ridiculing some Fordingbridgers who were duped in to 'hunting' some hares which were only stuffed exemplars. The cant name for Fordingbridgers we learn is 'Blue-skins'. We have not located any other broadside printing of this ballad, or indeed this one. The text appeared in The Sporting Magazine as 'The Hare Hunters' in November 1809, but the imprint here makes this earlier (note the printer's carelessness with his own address). On the verso of the album leaf are 3 engravings of fashionable figures, apparently taken from the Pocket Book, For the Year 1773.