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Important for the history of early 19th-century sporting life

NIMROD (= Charles James APPERLEY).
Memoirs of the life of John Mytton, Esq., of Halston, Shropshire; formerly M. P. for Shrewsbury, high sheriff for the counties of Salop and Merioneth, and major of the north Shropshire yeomanry cavalry, with notices of his shooting, driving, racing, eccentric, and extravagant exploits.

Engraved title with aquatint vignette of Mytton's tomb, with 18 handcoloured aquatints after designs by H. Alken & T.J. Rawlins, aquatinted by E. Duncan and H. Alken with hunting scenes and social events.

Engraved title with aquatint vignette of Mytton's tomb, with 18 handcoloured aquatints after designs by H. Alken & T.J. Rawlins, aquatinted by E. Duncan and H. Alken with hunting scenes and social events.

Engraved title with aquatint vignette of Mytton's tomb, with 18 handcoloured aquatints after designs by H. Alken & T.J. Rawlins, aquatinted by E. Duncan and H. Alken with hunting scenes and social events.

Engraved title with aquatint vignette of Mytton's tomb, with 18 handcoloured aquatints after designs by H. Alken & T.J. Rawlins, aquatinted by E. Duncan and H. Alken with hunting scenes and social events.

Engraved title with aquatint vignette of Mytton's tomb, with 18 handcoloured aquatints after designs by H. Alken & T.J. Rawlins, aquatinted by E. Duncan and H. Alken with hunting scenes and social events.



London, Rudolph Ackerman, Eclipse Sporting Gallery & N. S. M Office, 1837. 8vo. Contemporary burgundy morocco, gilt & ribbed spine with gilt foxheads and horseshoes title lettered in gold, both covers with gilt tooling and gilt foxheads as cornerpieces, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, (RODT & SON). Engraved title with aquatint vignette of Mytton's tomb, with 18 handcoloured aquatints after designs by H. Alken & T.J. Rawlins, aquatinted by E. Duncan and H. Alken with hunting scenes and social events. IX, (1), 206, (1) pp.

Second enlarged edition on the life of John Mytton (1796-1834), illustrated with lively and colourful aquatint plates with huntingscenes and transport by carriage through the country side and several animated scenes a.o. in ballrooms. It was written by the famous British sportsman and sportsjournalist Charles James Apperley (1778-1843), who wrote under the name "Nimrod". He published articles on his hunting tours in The Sporting Magazine, the Quarterly Review, and The New Sporting Magazine. The first edition was published in 1835 with twelve plates. The present second edition contains 18 aquatints: 6 plates extra  and 3 new plates replace 3 of the old plates from the first edition, making 9 new plates in all. Tooley: "A most valuable and important book for the sporting life of the period''.
Fine copy, with bookplate of Harry Lawrence, Bradfer Lawrence pasted on inside frontcover.- (Neatly re-backed with the original spine laid down; some sl. foxing; without the advertisements  8 pp.).
Abbey, Life in England, 385; Schwerdt I, p. 38; Tooley, 67.

Related Subjects: Aquatints  Colour Platebooks  Hunting  Transport 

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