Martingale (Charles White) — Sporting Scenes and Country Characters

Longman,Orme,Brown,Green & Longmans This is a Very Good Copy of this book in half green calf (leather) over green cloth boards with brown moroccan title label to spine and with 'Martingale' stamped in gilt to spine also.There is one former owner's impressive bookplate to the front pastedown.This is a wonderful expose of various field sports that include Fox Hunting,Oteer hunting,Stag Hunting,Grouse Shooting,Cub HuntingDeer Stalking,Partridge and Pheasant shooting,float fishing,trout fishing,Rat and rabbit catching and much more besides.The page edges of the book are all marbled with rich glossy red and blue front endpapers.Illustrated on wood with some 52 plates after Alken,Dickes,Landseer and others.Binding remains firm with NO hinge weakness,some light general spotting on a few pages but it remains mostly clean throughout.Very decent copy for the collector which was acquired from a hugely impressive library of books on Big Game Hunting and shooting in the UK Asia,The Far East,America,Canada,Africa and New Zealand.8vo 290pp First Edition [1840] Very Good No Jacket First Edition 1st Printing London 8vo