"Wild Sports Of The West: With Legendary Tales And Local Sketches" 1838 MAXWELL, William Hamilton
$450
MAXWELL, William Hamilton
[387] pp.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street
1838
Second edition (1st ed., 1832)
6 3/4" x 4 1/2"
Engraved frontispiece, 14 plates. xii, 387, [1] pp. 12mo.
Contemporary half red calf and marbled boards, spine gilt w/ lattice work in blind, patterned endsheets, bookseller's ticket of "S. Hart l Coleraine". Bookplate.
Rubbed, small nick in fore-edge margin of first few leaves, very good overall.
Westwood and Satchell p. 149; for first edition: Sadleir 1683; Loeber M331.
Stories and sketches of the Irish, their sport and scenery, following the author's sporting visit to a remote part of Connaught in the early nineteenth century.