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The analysis of the hunting field : being a series of sketches of the principal characters that compose one. The whole forming a slight souvenir of the season, 1845-6 / with numerous illustrations by H. Alken.

Accession number
PML 146011
Creator
Surtees, Robert Smith, 1805-1864.
Published
London : Published by Rudolph Ackermann, 1846.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Added col. illustrated t.p.
With half-title.
Illustrated with 7 hand-colored aquatint plates by J. Harris after Alken, including added t.p., and 43 wood engraved vignettes.
1st ed., 2nd issue, in red cloth binding with two prefaces present, one dated "October, 1846" followed by a second on p. [v]-vi dated "1847".
Publisher's advertisements (4 p.) at end of text.
"Cook and Co. Printers and Engravers, 76, Fleet Street."--T.p. verso.
Description
[6], 326, [4] p., [1], 6 leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm
Provenance
Bookplate of Moncure Biddle; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's original red cloth stamped in gold.
Classification
Department