Wild Sports Of The World..
Bound in original pictorial decorated cloth gilt. All edges gilt. Extremities worn and some foxing throughout, otherwise a very good copy.
£80.00
Publisher
Ward, Lock and Tyler. Warwick House, Paternoster row.,
Place
London
Date
[c.1880].
Synopsis
A book of natural history and adventure. by james greenwood: author of 'savage life,'etc
with wood cuts from designs by harden melville and william harvey, portraits of celebrated hunters from original photographs, and eight coloured illustrations by harrison weir, zwecker and others.
[cover title]: by the author of a night in the workhouse.
(beeton's boy's own library.5)
Item Description
8vo. 5.5 x 8.25 inches xxii + 426 pp.
Illustrations
Illustrated by 8 chromolithograph plates, including frontispiece, by 8 portraits of famous sportsmen and travellers and by 148 wood engravings in text including at end of the preface and the list of wood-cuts. decorated by vignettes on verso of half title, by head and tailpice vignettes and by publishers device on title page.
Provenance
1880 prize label John Cooper.
Notes
A lavishly illustrated account of wild animals of the world and their hunting and hunters, largely intended for the juvenile market. It includes about twenty five families and species including elephant, gorilla, and hippo. James William Greenwood (c.1832-1927) was a journalist and social explorer.
[Stock No. 23265]
