Schwerdt, C. F. G. R.
Hunting Hawking Shooting
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
Illustrated in a Catalogue of Books, Manuscripts, Prints and Drawings. London: privately printed for the author, 1928-37. First edition, one of 300 copies signed by the author, this copy one of an unspecified number bound in deluxe full niger (most copies being in green half morocco), 4 volumes, 4to (32 x 25cm), original orange niger by Kelly & Sons, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, gilt decorated endpapers, 382 plates, most in colours, many mounted or folded, tissue-guards throughout, spines sunned, light scuffs and marks to bindings, tan-burn along edges of endpapers from turn-ins volume 3 additionally with abrasion to top spine compartment, faint indentations to front board, shallow chip to head of plates 206-210, volume 4 with mottling to covers