BECKFORD Peter. Thoughts on Hunting in a Series of Familiar Letters to a Friend. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY IN SIGNED BUMPUS BINDING. Sherwood Neely & Jones, Paternoster-Row, [1820], 1820.

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Description: 8vo., with engraved frontispiece, engraved title, numerous fine engraved illustrations (a number by Bewick) in the text and and double-page engraved plan, preliminaries lightly spotted, some sidelining and occasional annotation in a neat contemporary hand; handsomely bound in red straight-grain half morocco BY BUMPUS, marbled boards, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and third compartments framed and lettered in gilt, all other compartments framed in gilt, gilt top, marbled endpapers, uncut, a very good, bright, remarkably crisp copy. THE BINDING IS SIGNED ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. Beckford's famous collection of twenty-four extended letters was first published in 1781. 'The corner-stone of a huntsman's library' (Gee).

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