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Price: US$221.37 + shipping
Description: x 478 pages, illustrated with 22 hand-coloured plates, a limited edition of 500 copies, publishers 2 tone green cloth, gilt vignette of horse and rider to upper board, light dust soiling to cloth. Sporting Repository was originally published as a magazine in 1822 and quite rare and was important for its fine colour plates. The plates are reproduced and coloured by hand, includes plates on Partridge Shooting Grouse Shooting, Gamekeepers, poachers, Greyhounds.
Seller: Hereward Books, Ely, CAMBR, United Kingdom
Various. The Sporting Repository. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., London, 1904.
Price: US$256.65 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited edition of 500 copies. Large Thick Octavo. x, list of illus., 478pp. Bound in half dark green buckram, gilt titles to spine, light green cloth boards with horse vignette to upper board. T.E.G. Minor rubbing to extremities. Sympathetically re-cased. New end papers. Illustrated with the hand-coloured plates. Clean and bright internally. A Very Good+ copy.
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom
Price: US$273.01 + shipping
Description: x 478 pages, illustrated with 22 hand-coloured plates all edges gilt, a limited edition of 500 copies. Bound by Bayntun (Riviere) Bath in a full red calf with gilt double frames to the boards with sporting motif corner pieces, the spine in 5 compartments with central sporting vignettes within gilt decorative boarders and leather title label. Light rubbing to spine edges with cracking to top 4cm of the upper spine edge. Sporting Repository was originally published as a magazine in 1822 and quite rare and was important for its fine colour plates. The plates are reproduced and coloured by hand, includes plates on Partridge Shooting Grouse Shooting, Gamekeepers, poachers, Greyhounds.
Seller: Hereward Books, Ely, CAMBR, United Kingdom
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Special Limited Edition, first issue in this format. Size: 4to. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Previous owner's book-plate laid in on inside front cover. Top edge gilt, faded. This edition limited to 500 copies. Green gilt stamped cloth over boards, gilt illustration of horse and rider on front cover, color frontispiece illustration, xi, 478 pages; in addition to the frontispiece, there are twenty-one full-page color illustrations with tissues. Corners and spine ends bumped with wear especially at head of spine, worn along sides of spine, bottom edge of text block soiled, covers scuffed/soiled, front hinge cracked, tissues are toned, interior pages lightly toned. Gilt stamped illustration on front cover in very good condition as are all of the color illustrations. Begins with Vol. I, No. 1, January 15, 1822 and runs through the Vol. I, No. VI, June 15, 1822 issue. "The Sporting Repository ran its course is a magazine in the year 1822, and has long commanded a high price in its complete form on account of the excellence of many of the plates by H. Alken." The Publishers' Note goes on to say that some of the original plates were replaced with what they considered better plates by Alken and others. Illustrator: Alken, H.; Barenger, J. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 5 lbs 3 oz. Category: Sports & Pastimes; Books; Fishing & Hunting. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 008443. This is a heavy book and may involve extra shipping charges.
Seller: Dennis Holzman Antiques, Cohoes, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$413.21 + shipping
Description: IX 233 + VII 244 pages, 2 volumes bound as 1, 4to., TEG, 22 colour plates after Henry Alken, Barenger, Dighton, Benjamin Marshall. limited edition of 50 numbered copies on hand made paper. Armorial bookplate of R.N.H.Moore Stevens to front paste down, faint tide mark to top 1/3 of verso blank on FEP and first blank and lesser so to 1/2 title and top half of rear free end paper, bound in later not recent 1/2 dark blue morroco, cloth sided spine in 6 compartments with raised bands, sporting motifs to four compartments within gilt ruled borders, a fine binding. Sporting Repository was originally published as a magazine in 1822, and was important for its fine colour plates.
Seller: Hereward Books, Ely, CAMBR, United Kingdom
Price: US$564.64 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: hardback, quarto, 12" x 9", two volumes bound into one, red full morocco binding by Hatchards, ruled gilt, raised bands to spine, compartments with equestrian related symbols, top edge and turn-ins gilt. One of just fifty copies on hand-made paper, this being numbered 38, twenty-two tissue-guarded colour plates after H Alken and others, xi, 233 + vii, 244 pp. Some minor scuffs to the binding and the spine a little faded but generally a very good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text. A smaller edition in a limitation of 500 copies was issued at the same time. Please not that because of weight, a request for additional postage will be made if this volume is ordered from locations outside the United Kingdom. Please enquire for details prior to placing an order.
Seller: Pendleburys - the bookshop in the hills, Llanwrda, United Kingdom
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: 2 volume set Volume 1: [233] pp. Volume 2: [244] pp. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd. 1904 First Edition This edition on hand-made paper is limited to 50 copies, of which this is No 5. Ex-libris F. Ambrose Clark (signed) w/ velum spines 12 1/4" x 9" Two-volume deluxe vellum edition of: 'The Sporting Repository' containing chapters on: Horse Racing/ Hunting/ Coursing/ Shooting/ Archery/ Trotting and Tandem Matches/ Cocking/ Pedestrianism/ & Pugilism Copy #5 printed on hand-made paper in the 'Subscriber's Edition' limited to only 50 copies Illustrated throughout vols I & II with superb hand-coloured plates with tissue guards present by the leading 19th century English sporting artists of the day: (16) by Henry Alken/ (2) J. Barenger/ (2) Dighton/ & (2) Ben Marshall Furthermore, with pristine, museum-worthy provenance: The F. Ambrose Clark Collection He was a world-class equestrian, race & steeplechase horse owner, philanthropist & heir to The Singer Sewing Machine fortune. His set is both elegantly fountain-tipped signed @ the head of FFEP as well as with his armorial ex-libris (1907) bookplate depicting a fox in pursuit by 'FTC' affixed The glorious vellum gilt embossed spine is accented in a pearl grey cloth board. This is truly a connoisseur's 'presentation' set worthy of the finest 'country gentleman' sporting library then. Illustrated by H. Alken/ J. Barenger/ B. Marshall/ Dighton Frederick Ambrose Clark (August 1, 1880 February 26, 1964) was an American heir and equestrian. Early life "Brose" Clark was born on August 1, 1880 in Cooperstown, New York. He was the third son of Alfred Corning Clark (18441896) and Elizabeth (née Scriven) Clark (18481909). His siblings were Edward Severin Clark, Robert Sterling Clark, and Stephen Carlton Clark. He grew up in New York City and Cooperstown, New York. After his father's death in 1896, his mother remarried to Henry Codman Potter, the Episcopal bishop of New York from 1887 until his death in 1908. His paternal grandfather was Singer Sewing Machine Company partner Edward Cabot Clark, who died in 1882, leaving an estate estimated between $25,000,000 (equivalent to $662,327,586 today) and $50,000,000 (equivalent to $1,324,655,172 today). Two year old Brose, his mother, and three brothers, all each inherited $250,000 (equivalent to $6,623,276 today). His maternal grandmother, Caroline (née Jordan) Clark, was the daughter of Ambrose L. Jordan, a New York State Senator who served as the New York State Attorney General. Equestrian interests Referred popularly and with affection as "Brose," he never attended college and "had no taste for business." He did, however, pour himself into his passion for all things equestrian. He was a gentleman rider who owned, bred and trained horses for steeplechase, polo, flat racing, driving, show jumping, and fox hunting. He was considered the quintessential equestrian, sportsman and was linked with horses throughout his life until his ailing heath in 1963 marked the disbanding of his horse stables after 60 years of racing the light blue and yellow silks. Clark looked to be a man who stepped right out of a 19th-century sporting print. He was almost always seen in a tweed English cap, waistcoat, breeches and tall boots throughout his life in person and in captured images. He was master of hounds for the Meadow Brook Hounds in the 1920s, which annually held a well-attended steeplechase race meeting on his property in Old Westbury, starting in 1919. Always the consummate horseman with a disdain for automobiles, famously Brose would not allow NBC radio to drive their equipment truck onto the estate to broadcast the races. Rather they had to use a team of horses to haul the equipment in. In 1904, the then twenty-four year old Clark was painted by American painter Robert Henri. In 1958, he privately published a limited catalog of his sporting paintings: The F. Ambrose Clark Collection of Sporting Paintings which included select works by artists Sir Alfre
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.