The Life of a Sportsman.

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Considered one of the great color-plate sporting books of the Victorian era. VG, 1842, 1st ed, 1st issue, 36 pls (complete). In contemporary green crushed morocco by Riviere and Sons, gilt edge tooling, corners and edges a little rubbed. Spine, raised bands, decorative gilt tooling with sporting motifs, edges a little rubbed, titles in gilt. Internally, frontis, coloured half title, [3], (iv-vi), (2), [1], 2-402 pp, 36 pls (hand coloured - plate 33 is the 2nd issue, & 4 mounted), front joint professionally strenghtened, couple of small paper repairs. Considered to be the premier colour plate sporting book of the 19th century! (Folio, 147* 232 mm). (Tooley 65. Souhart 351. Allibone 66). Apperley was born at Plasgronow, near Wrexham, in Denbighshire, North Wales.