Author: ANON [ HERBERT BYNG HALL ], THE AUTHOR OF 'HIGHLAND SPORTS', 'SAYAH', ETC., ETC.
Title: Sport and Its Pleasures, Physical and Gastronomical
Description: London, Chapman & Hall. 1859, First Edition. Quarter Cloth & Boards, 16mo. Hardback, 100mm x 167mm tall (4" x 6.5" approx.). Pp xi, 196, with title vignette, + 3 plates (incl. frontispiece). Lacking the front free endpaper and some browning of the leaves [excepting the plates and title-leaf, for which a better quality of paper stock was utilised]. Small loss of blank free margin of leaf 91/92 and some external rubs and wear to board corners. Otherwise good, in a probably contemporary binding of quarter light-brown cloth/grey-green paper-covered boards/gilt-on-leather spine title. Very scarce. Fair/no d/w.

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