EDWARDS. Lionel (1878-1966, illustrator). My Hunting Sketch Book, London, 1928, 4to, 15 coloured plates, original vellum-backed cloth boards. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 226 OF 250 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. With another book of related interest. (2)

EDWARDS. Lionel (1878-1966, illustrator). My Hunting Sketch Book, London, 1928, 4to, 15 coloured plates, original vellum-backed cloth boards. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 226 OF 250 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. With another book of related interest. (2)

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EDWARDS, Lionel (1878-1966, illustrator).  My Hunting Sketch Book. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode Limited, 1928. 4to (317 x 250mm). Half title, 15 mounted coloured plates by Lionel Edwards (occasional light mainly marginal spotting).  Original vellum-backed burgundy cloth boards lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 226 OF 250 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. With [Charles James Apperley's] Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq. ... with Notices of his Hunting, Shooting, Driving, Racing, Eccentric and Extravagant Exploits. By Nimrod ... Second Edition, Reprinted (with Considerable Additions) from the New Sporting Magazine (London, Rudolph Ackermann, 1837, 8vo, 18 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates by H. Alken and T. J. Rawlins, contemporary calf gilt, rebacked with some repairs). (2)