With Observations on the Treatment & Disorders of Them, by a Sportsman
A Treatise on Greyhounds With Observations on the Treatment & Disorders of Them, by a Sportsman
Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mayor and Jones, 1819.
First edition. Original publisher's brown boards with printed paper title label to the spine. Page edges untrimmed. Publisher's adverts at rear as called for. Engraved frontispiece "Czarina and Maria" by J. Scott after Sawrey Gilpin and engraved title page vignette after Abraham Cooper. A near fine copy, with trivial wear to the boards and one short closed tear on page xiii. Previous owner's ink stamp to front endpaper.
Scarce, particularly in original boards. This "should be useful to-day to breeders of these noble beast and lovers of so ancient a sport."
Schwerdt II p268.
Stock ID: 36573
