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Lot 250

Apperley, Charles James, 'Nimrod', The Life of a Sportsman, London: Rudolf Ackermann, Eclipse...

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Lot 250

Apperley, Charles James, 'Nimrod', The Life of a Sportsman, London: Rudolf Ackermann, Eclipse...

Price Realised: £4,723

Estimate: £300 - £500

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Lot 250

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Apperley, Charles James, 'Nimrod', The Life of a Sportsman, London: Rudolf Ackermann, Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 1842      

An elaborate morocco binding by Curtis Walters with original artwork and a note by the binder      

First edition, 8vo (236 x 144mm), hand-coloured aquatint additional title with vignettes, hand-coloured frontispiece and 34 plates by Henry Alken (plate at p.348 in the first state), without adverts or publisher's catalogue, bound in red morocco in 1935 by Curtis Walters, with various coloured inlays of purple and green with a central red morocco panel to sides and red morocco roundels with sporting motifs of fox and horse heads, hunting horns, stirrups and horseshoes, the spine in six conforming compartments and five raised gilt bands, full green morocco pastedowns, watered red silk free endpapers, gilt edges, with a note by the binder on free endpaper Designed and bound by me in 1935, Curtis Walters, in a half tan morocco chemise and matching slipcase; together with original designs for the binding and an autograph note signed by Curtis Walters on headed paper about the book and the binding, and a photograph possibly of the binder

Provenance: Property of a Royal Family.        

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