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Author/Creator:Howitt, Samuel, 1765?-1822.
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Title:Orme's collection of British field sports : illustrated in twenty beautifully coloured engravings from designs by S. Howitt.
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Published/Created:Guildford [England] : C.W. Traylen, [1955]
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Physical Description:[2] leaves, 20 leaves of plates : facsims. ; 45 x 55 cm.
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Local Notes:BAC: British Art Center copy 1 is number 4 of 20 Deluxe Edition copies. Bound in gilt-tooled red morocco. Includes one of the original plates (no. 4), laid in at end.
BAC: British Art Center copy 2 is unbound. In lieu of the printed wrappers of the facsimile edition, the present copy includes the publisher's prospectus for this edition ([4] p.), which includes a reproduction of the cover title.
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Notes:"[An] exact facsimile of the first and only edition of one of the rarest of all sporting books."--Title page verso.
With facsimiles of aquatints by J. Godby, H. Merke, W.M. Craig, J. Clark, and Vivares; after Samuel Howitt. Colored vignette on List of plates aquatinted by J. Swain; after Samuel Howitt.
Originally published, London, Orme, 1807.
Cover title.
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Variant and related titles:Collection of British field sports
British field sports
- Format:Book
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Subjects:Sporting prints.
Sports--Great Britain--Pictorial works.
Sports in art.
Hunting in art.
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Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1955.
Guildford--Imprints--Specimens--1955.
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Genre/Form:Facsimiles (Publishing)--Great Britain--20th century.
Prospectuses.
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Also listed under:Clark, J., 1789-1830, engraver.
Craig, William Marshall, 1763 or 1764-1829, engraver.
Godby, J. (James), active 1798-1812, engraver.
Merke, Henri, engraver.
Swaine, John, 1775-1860, engraver.
Vivarès, Thomas, approximately 1735-approximately 1810, engraver.
Orme, Edward, 1775-1848.
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