Lot 34
Blome, Richard
Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 29 August 2012 at 12:00 BST
£3,500
Description
The gentlemans recreation. London: S. Roycroft for Richard Blome, 1686. Folio, 2 parts in one volume, engraved frontispiece and 85 plates including 10 plates of subscribers' arms, woodcuts in the text, title printed in red and black, license leaf before title, neatly rebacked retaining old marbled boards, corners neatly repaired, [Wing B3213], Viscount Mersey, Bignor Park - J. Hamilton Leigh - Viscount Strathallan copy with bookplates, a good copy
Footnote
Provenance: Viscount Strathallan, Stobhall, Perthshire