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Title(s)
Orme's collection of British field sports : illustrated in twenty beautifully coloured engravings from designs by S. Howitt.
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Additional Title(s)
Collection of British field sports
British field sports -
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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Holdings
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio B 2011 31 Copy 2
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio B 2011 31 Copy 1
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Accessible in the Study Room [Request] -
Copyright Status
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Full YALE Library Record
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Classification
Books
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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.
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. -
Subject Terms
Hunting in art. | Sporting prints. | Sports -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works. | Sports in art.
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Form/Genre
Facsimiles (Publishing) -- Great Britain -- 20th century. | Prospectuses.
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