James Edmund Harting | Essays on Sport, 1883, the author's copy

The Property of the Downside Abbey General Trust

James Edmund Harting

Essays on sport and natural history. London: Horace Cox, “The Field” office, 1883

FIRST EDITION, 8vo (215 x 140mm.), photographic frontispiece, illustrations, original cloth with gilt falcon’s hood motif on cover

THE AUTHOR’S OWN COPY, with photographs, correspondence and cuttings loosely inserted, and with one or two authorial annotations.

LITERATURE:

Swift 252.01

PROVENANCE:

J.E. Harting, bookplate; Downside Abbey, stamp