. Sporting Days: A Book for Visitors and House Parties. J M Dent & Co / E W Savory, Fine Art Publishers, London & Bristol, UK, 1907.

Price: US$95.40 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 43 of 44 thick card sheets (one having been removed). A printed and delightfully illustrated guest book/scrap book, with illustrations of hunting, travel and sporting scenes (including blood sports), and spaces for mounting personal photographs, memories ephemera etc. Bound in strong burlap, printed with titles and colour illustrated scene of huntsmen, horses and hound. Two green spine straps and matching closing straps front and back. Marbled endpapers. Title page printed elegantly in red and black. Small Folio. The burlap covers are a little soiled, gently rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends. Some faint and occasional spotting internally. Several photographs mounted on sheets, with occasional annotations, while many of the sheets have no entries. A truly handsome volume, very reminiscent of English aristocrat country house life in the first years of the 20th century, notable for the fine illustrations by some of the leading illustrators of the era.

Seller: BookAddiction (ibooknet member), Canterbury, United Kingdom

. Sporting Days. A Book for Visitors and House Parties. Arranged by J. Harry Savory.. Bristol, E. W. Savory Fine Art Publishers / London, J. M. Dent & Co. 1907., 1907.

Price: US$175.58 + shipping

Description: Gedrucktes, reizend illustriertes Gästebuch ohne hs. Eintragungen. Mit Abbildungen von Jagdszenen, Pferden, Hunden, Golf u. a. - Nach Vorl. v. Cecil Aldin, Arthur Rackham u.v.a. 4° ( 25,5 x 32 cm). 2 Bll. (Titelei in Rot- u. Schwarzdr.), 44 stärkere Kartonbll. (tls. illustr., tls. Leerseiten). OEinband m. grobem Sackleinenbezug, schwarzgepr. Deckeltitel, farb. gepr. Deckelbild (2 Jäger zu Pferde m. Jagdhund), 2 grünen, textilen Rücken- u. Schließbändern, umseit. Farbschnitt u. marmor. Vorsätzen. Rü. gedunkelt, Hinterdeckel m. kl. Fleck, im Text stockfleckig aber sonst beinahe unberührt.

Seller: Antiquariat Löcker, Wien, Austria

Savory, Harry J.. Sporting Days. A Book for Visitors and House Parties.. J. M. Dent & Co.; E.W. Savory, Ltd., Fine Art Publishers, Bristol, London, 1907.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: from the Androssan estate of Robert Montgomery Scott, son of Hope Montgomery Scott. inscribed to Luca and Frank from Mother 1916. unpaginated 104 pp. slight foxing and normal aging. hessian cloth with color illustration and black titles. square and tight w ribbon ties

Seller: Reifsnyder Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.