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London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1842. 8vo. (9 1/4 x 5 7/8 inches). vi, [2], 402pp. 36 hand-colored aquatint plates after Henry Alken (including frontispiece, title, and 4 plates mounted on plate paper). Plate at page 348 in the first state. Full contemporary blue morocco by Zaensdorf, spine in six compartments with raised bands, decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers. First edition, first issue. Apperley's work, with illustrations by Alken, is "considered by many to be the premier coloured plate sporting book in the 19th century" (Tooley). Born in Wales to an English family, Charles J. Apperley was a sportsman and well-known sports writer. From 1813 to 1819, he was the agent for his brother-in-law's estates and around 1822, he "began writing for the Sporting Magazine. From his boyhood his ruling passions had been hunting, horse-riding, and horse management...Apperley's expert knowledge and social status made him an invaluable recruit to the sporting press of the time, and he may even be…
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The Life of a Sportsman
por NIMROD - [APPERLEY, Charles James (c. 1778-1843)]; and Henry ALKEN, illustrator
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