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FOX-HUNTING VERSE -- Billesdon Coplow Verses. Manuscript verses describing Mr Charles Loraine Smith of Enderby on the occasion of the Billesdon Coplow run, Feb 24 1800, one page, 4to; with a small attached leaf giving the names of those who finished or who were first out of the water in the run, card covers (upper cover detached). Provenance: C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (his sale, 11 March 1946, lot 2184). The verses are extracts from "A Hunting Song" to the tune of "Derry Down", by Bethell Cox, and "Billesdon Coplow", by the Rev. Robert Lowth (here called 'Louth'), followed by the final couplet of the latter poem. Schwerdt IV, p.126.
LOWTH, Robert. Billesdon Coplow, a Poem, Descriptive of a Remarkable Day's Sport in Leicestershire ... February 24th, 1800. London: Ackermann & Co., 1845. 8° (180 x 110mm). Folding hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece with the participants identified by a contemporary hand, a few wood-engraved vignettes in the text. (Plate slightly rubbed and mounted on cloth.) Contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt, gilt edges (slightly rubbed). Provenance: C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate; ?his sale, 10 July 1939, lot 1701, part, misdated 1848). One of at least eight editions of this famous poem, the Sporting Magazine remarking on its first appearance in 1800: '"Billesdon Coplow" will only cease to interest when the grass will grow in winter in the streets of Melton Mowbray!'. Schwerdt I, p.323.
TURNER, F.C., illustrator. A Set of Fox-Huntings descriptive of the poem of Billesdon Coplow [by Robert Lowth]. London: T. Gosden, 1833. 8° (275 x 185mm). Hand-coloured title vignette, and 12 hand-coloured plates by and after Turner. Extra illustrated with a hand-coloured engraving of 'The Bilsden Coplow Day'. (Light marginal soiling.) Original paper wrappers with duplicate title (lightly soiled), later cloth portfolio. Provenance: C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate; his sale, 10 July 1939, lot 1701, part lot). Schwerdt II, p.272. (3)
LOWTH, Robert. Billesdon Coplow, a Poem, Descriptive of a Remarkable Day's Sport in Leicestershire ... February 24th, 1800. London: Ackermann & Co., 1845. 8° (180 x 110mm). Folding hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece with the participants identified by a contemporary hand, a few wood-engraved vignettes in the text. (Plate slightly rubbed and mounted on cloth.) Contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt, gilt edges (slightly rubbed). Provenance: C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate; ?his sale, 10 July 1939, lot 1701, part, misdated 1848). One of at least eight editions of this famous poem, the Sporting Magazine remarking on its first appearance in 1800: '"Billesdon Coplow" will only cease to interest when the grass will grow in winter in the streets of Melton Mowbray!'. Schwerdt I, p.323.
TURNER, F.C., illustrator. A Set of Fox-Huntings descriptive of the poem of Billesdon Coplow [by Robert Lowth]. London: T. Gosden, 1833. 8° (275 x 185mm). Hand-coloured title vignette, and 12 hand-coloured plates by and after Turner. Extra illustrated with a hand-coloured engraving of 'The Bilsden Coplow Day'. (Light marginal soiling.) Original paper wrappers with duplicate title (lightly soiled), later cloth portfolio. Provenance: C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate; his sale, 10 July 1939, lot 1701, part lot). Schwerdt II, p.272. (3)
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