HANBURY, Mrs. David - Lot 130

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HANBURY, Mrs. David - Lot 130
HANBURY, Mrs. David One Day in the Life of a Stag London, Henry Colburn, 1847 SCHWERDT COPY OF THIS VERY PLEASANT ILLUSTRATED BOOK, WITH ENGRAVINGS COLORED IN THE PERIOD. ORIGINAL EDITION In-4 oblong (255 x 338 mm) COLLATION : (2) ff, 65 pp, (1) f. ILLUSTRATION: 7 engravings by E. R. Smyth, including 1 frontispiece, 1 title and 5 off-text plates, hand-colored and gummed at the time ATTACHMENT: publisher's catalog, 8 pp. in-8 PUBLISHER'S BINDING, signed Westleys & Clark. Green percale, gilt title in the center of the first board with a stag's head motif, cold framing, spine muted, untrimmed. PROVENANCE: Charles T. Hebert (bookplate with motto "Tenax et fidus") -- Douglas Peter Crossman (bookplate with motto "In cruce spes mea") -- C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (1862-1939; bookplate) BIBLIOGRAPHY: Schwerdt, I, 228, this copy: "a discussion between a young lady and her sporting lover on the cruelty of modern stag hunting".
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