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FIRST EDITION, with 1804 to title page & no later printing dates. Embellished with 16 engravings, by Messrs. Medland, Pouncy, Landseer, Peltro, etc., from paintings made on purpose, by Mr. Garrard. Contains all 16 full-page plates (copper engravings), as issued, including frontispiece. Two of the plates have been misplaced at the wrong page (p.29 plate at p.256, p.105 plate at p.161). "Colonel Thomas Thornton (1757-1823), of Thornville Royal, in Yorkshire was a zealous sportsman, and revived falconry. In 1786 he undertook a sporting tour in the Scottish highlands. He chartered the sloop Falcon, and partly by sea and partly by land proceeded through a great part of the northern and western highlands, dividing his time between hunting, shooting, angling, and hawking. In 1804 he published 'A Sporting Tour through the Northern Parts of England and Great Part of the Highlands of Scotland'. Thornton was perhaps the most flamboyant sportsman and falconer of Britain's 18th century. The stories of his sporting exploits are legend and chronicled in his books of his sojourns to Scotland, England and France." With old dealer's typed description slip laid in. Full contents as follows: endpaper, blank, frontispiece, title page, advertisement (2pp), table of contents (unpaginated 18pp), errata, main text (p.1-312), index (4pp), list of plates, blank, endpaper. Bound in contemporary full calf leather, gilt-ruled boards & gilt design to board edges, gilt lettering to spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. NOTE: Front board detached (but present), slight handling wear, mild offsetting from plates, otherwise a VG nice clean tight solid leatherbound copy of a scarce title. 21pp (advertisement & table of contents) + 312pp + 5pp (index & list of plates). Heavy volume (over 1.5kg), extra shipping may be required. RARE. Seller Inventory # 001477
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Bibliographic Details
Title: A Sporting Tour Through the Northern Parts ...
Publisher: Printed for Vernor & Hood, 31, Poultry; Constable & Hunter, Edinburgh; & Brash & Reid, Glasgow; by James Swan, Angel-Street, London
Publication Date: 1804
Binding: Leather
Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition
