Illustrations to Popular Songs

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True Sportsmen are We for the Game Once in View. First edition, later issue, oblong folio, [2] leaves (containing letterpress title and Address leaf), forty three hand coloured etched plates (including added pictorial title), with the original tissue guards, title and plates dated 1822 & some watermarked 1825, each plate contains two to six comical scenes, including several hunting or sporting scenes, illustrating titles of popular songs. Publisher's half dark green road over marbled boards, original green road gilt lettering label on front cover, smooth spine, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, with the original printed paper label mounted on front paste down, book label to fpd (Ward), neatly repaired tear to lower margin of one plate _With--mixture without measure), contemporary ink owners inscription to ffep (1828) . A superb copy First issued in 1822, reissued in 1823, 1825, 1826, 1831 (Tooley). (260*355 mm). (Schwerdt IV, p4 (1823 issue). Tooley 37. Not in Abbey). The scenes illustrate the lyrics or lines of popular songs of the day, often turning a song verse into a visual, comic narrative.