~~Plates Collate Complete~~

The Chace, The Turf, and The Road

With Illustrations by Henry Alken,
and a Portrait by D. MacLise

By Nimrod (Charles James Apperley)

London:  John Murray,

~ MDCCCXXXVII ~
~ 1837 ~

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Octavo. 301 pages. Hardcover bound in 3/4 brown leather with marbled paper covered boards.  All edges marbled.  Binding is rubbed and soiled from handling.  There is some bumping at boards, and the leather is scuffed in places. Five raised spine boards. Gilt decorations on spine. The gilt has rubbed off in places.  Marbled endpapers. Handwritten inscriptions on the reverse of the second front flyleaf. A colour insignia bookplate is on the third front flyleaf, along with a handwritten inscription at the top of the page. The title page and frontispiece are quite toned. Text is foxed. There are 14 plates (including the portrait), collates complete.  One of the plates is detached but present.  The plates have foxing and have heavy browning about the edges.  The Chase - The Melton Chase plate has had the sky portion hand coloured in blue.

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