WILD SPORTS OF THE WORLD BY JAMES GREENWOOD CA.1880

WILD SPORTS OF THE WORLD BY JAMES GREENWOOD CA.1880

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[GREENWOOD, James]. Wild Sports of The World: A Book of Natural History and Adventure. London: Ward, Lock and Co., n.d. [ca. 1880].

First edition. Cloth-bound. Hardback. Octavo (220 x 140 x 35 mm). Pp. xxii, 426. English text. Bound in publisher's original decorative cloth. Half-title present. Beautifully and profusely illustrated with woodcuts from designs by Harden Melville and William Harvey, and portraits of celebrated hunters from original photographs, plus head- and tail-pieces. Condition: GOOD. Binding tight and secure with the hinges intact. Mild bumping to spine ends. Very light ring mark to upper cover. Interior largely clean, although there is some marginal staining affecting to final five leaves. Prize plate to front pastedown. A lovely copy. Scarce thus.

Notes: Undated, presumed first edition, the prize plate dated 1894.