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[APPERLEY, Charles James]
Memoirs of the Life of the late John Mytton, Esq.
Formerly M.P. for Shrewsbury, High Sheriff for the counties of Salop and Merioneth and Major in the North Shropshire Yeomanry Cavalry; with notices of his Hunting, Shooting, Driving, Racing, eccentric and Extravagant Exploits. By Nimrod. With numerous illustrations by H. Alken and T. J. Rawlins. Second edition, reprinted (with considerable additions) from the New Sporting Magazine.
Second edition, with eighteen plates (instead of twelve in the first).
Octavo (240 × 149 mm). 20th-century full red polished calf, spine with purple and green morocco labels, gilt rules, dated in gilt at foot, covers with double gilt rules and flower-heads at corners, dentelles with blind decorative border, pink mottled endpapers, edges gilt on the rough. Complete with final advert leaves; original front cover bound in at end. 18 coloured aquatints, with later tissue guards; engraved title with ownership inscription of J. B. de Trafford, Crofton Hall, 1851. Some foxing, one leaf (pp. 28/27) with restoration to three margins, small marginal repair to pp. 127/8, text not affected in either case, a good copy.
