Lot 202
202
MARKHAM, Gervase (1568?-1637). The Young Sportsman's Instructor. London: reprinted for T. Gosden by J. Johnson, Apollo Press, 1820. 48° (65 x 41mm). Woodcut frontispiece. (Light marginal thumb-soiling). Contemporary calf by Thomas Gosden (1780-1840), lavishly decorated in gilt, sporting tools on spine and centre of sides, gilt edges (very lightly rubbed), in a morocco-backed folding case. Provenance: William Thearsby Poole (ownership inscription on endpaper and recto of frontispiece, dated 1841).
MARKHAM, Gervase (1568?-1637). The Young Sportsman's Instructor. London: reprinted for T. Gosden by J. Johnson, Apollo Press, 1820. 48° (65 x 41mm). Woodcut frontispiece. (Light marginal thumb-soiling). Contemporary calf by Thomas Gosden (1780-1840), lavishly decorated in gilt, sporting tools on spine and centre of sides, gilt edges (very lightly rubbed), in a morocco-backed folding case. Provenance: William Thearsby Poole (ownership inscription on endpaper and recto of frontispiece, dated 1841).

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MARKHAM, Gervase (1568?-1637). The Young Sportsman's Instructor. London: reprinted for T. Gosden by J. Johnson, Apollo Press, 1820. 48° (65 x 41mm). Woodcut frontispiece. (Light marginal thumb-soiling). Contemporary calf by Thomas Gosden (1780-1840), lavishly decorated in gilt, sporting tools on spine and centre of sides, gilt edges (very lightly rubbed), in a morocco-backed folding case. Provenance: William Thearsby Poole (ownership inscription on endpaper and recto of frontispiece, dated 1841).

ONE OF ONLY EIGHT COPIES OF THIS MINIATURE BOOK ON VELLUM, this one unknown to Poynter who located one paper and two vellum copies, all in Gosden bindings. Poynter *1.3; Spielmann 356A; Westwood & Satchell p.147.
Provenance
Nice copy. Top corners rubbed. If you look hard, some light rubbing and creasing along the joints which may have had some restoration infill to cracks.

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