![ORME, Edward, publisher. Orme's Collection of British Field Sports Illustrated. London: Edwd Orme, January 1 1807 [plate list dated March 9, 1808].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/CKS/2006_CKS_07275_0179_000(010415).jpg?w=1)
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ORME, Edward, publisher. Orme's Collection of British Field Sports Illustrated. London: Edwd Orme, January 1 1807 [plate list dated March 9, 1808].
Oblong 2° (455 x 545mm). Hand-coloured aquatint title within emblematic wreath incorporating 20 oval sporting vignettes, list of plates in English and French with hand-coloured aquatint of a hare, and 20 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates after Samuel Howitt. (Title with two tears at lower margin, leaving small segment lacking, last plate slightly creased at corners of blank margin, new tissue guards.) Contemporayr half calf and marbled boards (rebacked, preserving old spine, new corners, old brown endpapers preserved), modern cloth case.
'FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of the finest and most important sporting book of the last two centuries' (Schwerdt). Originally issued in parts, it sold steadily, some copies having watermarks as late as 1819. But, as both Schwerdt and Abbey note, its rarity has grown since so many copies have been broken up for framing. This copy has pre-publication watermarks [John Whatman, 1804-06]; plates 2 and 9 are in the early state with the titles corrected by means of printed overslips. Abbey Scenery 14; Tooley 273; Schwerdt II, p. 53.
Oblong 2° (455 x 545mm). Hand-coloured aquatint title within emblematic wreath incorporating 20 oval sporting vignettes, list of plates in English and French with hand-coloured aquatint of a hare, and 20 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates after Samuel Howitt. (Title with two tears at lower margin, leaving small segment lacking, last plate slightly creased at corners of blank margin, new tissue guards.) Contemporayr half calf and marbled boards (rebacked, preserving old spine, new corners, old brown endpapers preserved), modern cloth case.
'FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of the finest and most important sporting book of the last two centuries' (Schwerdt). Originally issued in parts, it sold steadily, some copies having watermarks as late as 1819. But, as both Schwerdt and Abbey note, its rarity has grown since so many copies have been broken up for framing. This copy has pre-publication watermarks [John Whatman, 1804-06]; plates 2 and 9 are in the early state with the titles corrected by means of printed overslips. Abbey Scenery 14; Tooley 273; Schwerdt II, p. 53.
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