Notes On The Chase Of The Wild Red Deer In The Counties Of Devon And Somerset.
Bound in quarter vellum, gilt red boards, with decorative gold block in border on front and gilt tops. Endpapers foxed and stained. Interior clean with deckle edges, a few pages carelessly opened, affecting only margins. Pencil inscription on verso of half title,
£150.00
Details
ILLUSTRATOR'S COPY OF DEER HUNTING CLASSIC
Publisher
Lawrence and Bullen, Ltd., 16 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London,,
Date
1902
Synopsis
With an appendix descriptive of remarkable runs and incidents connected with the chase from the year 1780 to the year 1860. by charles palk collyns of dulverton, surgeon. edited by the hon.l.j.bathurst. illustrated by e.caldwell
Item Description
8vo. 7.75 x 10 inches. Frontis. + xxviii + 307 pp. Appendix, notes of chases between the years 1780 and 1825 and 1827-60. Illustrated with eight plates, including frontis. and 28 illustrations in text which have been separately printed and applied above their letterpress titles (those on pp. 261 and 307 not captioned or listed). [14], A-A8, B-U2.
Notes
No.61 of limited edition of 250. This is the second edition; the first was published in 1862 and the third in 1907.
The author, Charles Palk Collyns (1793-1864) was born in Kenton, near Exeter. He trained in London at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons and studied at the Devon and Exeter Hospital, before settling at Dulverton in 1814. Here he was well placed to pursue his interest in deer hunting, through the Devon and Somerset Stag Hunt, with whom he had hunted for forty six years at the time of publication.
The editor, the Hon. Lancelot Julian Bathurst (1868-1928) was a younger brother of Seymour Henry, the seventh Earl Bathurst, whose family owned the Morning Post, 1908-24. L. J. Bathurst was Master of the Puckeridge Foxhounds, 1894-96.
The illustrator, Edmund Caldwell (1852-1930) contributed eight full page plaes and all but one of the 28 half tones in the text. He was born in Canterbury, studied under Sidney Cooper and became a talented animal painter and book illustrator. This copy is inscribed by him and was part of his own file collection.
A fine copy of this handsomely produced limited edition.
[Stock No. 19831]
