first edition Hardcover
1789 · London
by White, Gilbert
London: T. Bensley for B. White & Son, 1789. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 9 plates, including large folding engraved frontispiece and two title vignettes all from the drawings of S.H. Grimm, with the errata leaf. Pp. v, [blank], 1-468, [12, index] plus errata leaf (p.292 misnumbered 262 as usual). 4to. Full green morocco by Riviere. Spine in six compartments, intricately gilt; gilt rules on the boards and board edges; gilt inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. The spie pleasingly sunned to brown, the boads partially sunned as wel, else this is a fine copy.
Leather gilt bookplate of te noted horse breeder and judge of horse shows Alfred Barmore Maclay on the front pastedown.
Rothschild 2550; Grolier-English 62. (Inventory #: 23916)
Leather gilt bookplate of te noted horse breeder and judge of horse shows Alfred Barmore Maclay on the front pastedown.
Rothschild 2550; Grolier-English 62. (Inventory #: 23916)
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