First edition sporting book, Victorian, gilt tooled cloth
A first edition Victorian sporting book in gilt tooled cloth, with foxing of the honest sort.
Description
The binding is decorative without shouting, the plates are present and the subject has enough detail to reward more than shelf dressing.
Details
- Dimensions
- 24cm / 9in high, 17cm / 7in wide, 4cm / 2in deep
- Period
- Victorian, 1886
- Materials
- Cloth, paper, gilt tooling
- Condition
- Good. Foxing to the endpapers and page edges, rubbing to the boards and softening to the spine ends. Binding sound.
- Provenance
- Bookplate of a North Yorkshire owner to the front pastedown.
- Delivery
- Parcel
Where it lives
A library shelf, bedside pile or present for someone who reads the captions before the text.
See Library
