A Tour in Sutherlandshire with Extracts from the Field-Books of a Sportsman and Naturalist
ST. JOHN, Charles
GOOD WORKING SET IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING
Published: John Murray, 1849
Stock code: 19529
Price: £30.00
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with engraved frontispieces (original tissue guards present) and 8 engraved plates (all original tissue guards present), first twenty leaves of both volumes (including endpapers, frontispiece, title and first plate) heavily damp-marked; original green ribbed cloth, upper boards elaborately framed in blind enclosing hooded falcon on block perch all in gilt, gilt backs, uncut, covers damp-marked (first volume moderately, second volume heavily) but still a good, tight, working set of a scarce work in wholly unrestored publisher's binding.
With the fine nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate of Henry Ashworth James on front paste-downs (bookplate in second volume damp-marked). 16pp publisher's catalogue (date January 1849) bound in at end of second volume. A perfectly sound working set of a scarce sporting classic. Anderson, p.412; Westwood & Satchell p.185.