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Lot 42A
Sale 568 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
May 1, 2018
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ROWLANDSON, Thomas, illustrator -- MAXWELL, Marmaduke, pseudonym. Advice to Sportsmen, Rural or Metropolitan, Noviciates or Grown Persons; with anecdotes of the most renowned shots of the day. London: Thomas Tegg, 1809.
12mo (175 x 107). Half-title, hand-colored lithographic frontispiece, 15 hand-colored lithographic plates after Rowlandson. Contemporary blue paper-backed boards, printed paper label on spine, uncut (short splits to joints and spine, old spine repairs); cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION IN BOARDS. "An attractive book with humorous plates by the foremost caricaturist of this date. Rare in good condition, and with plates in contemporary colouring" (Schwerdt II, pp.14-15). Tooley 407.
