Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire

London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1837. Second edition with considerable additions. Hardcover. Very good condition. Quarto. ix, 206 (1), 8pp., 18 hand-colored aquatint plates, incl. frontispiece, by H. Alken and T. J. Rawlins, with tissue guards. Original treecalf reddish-brown morocco with gilt tooling and triple gilt ruling on covers, gilt lettering on red and brown leather labels of spine and gilt tooling and ruling, raised bands; delicate dentelles. Gilt edges. Marbled endpapers, "Tout. Binder" printed to verso of front endpaper. Aquatint frontispiece with tissue guard. Engraved second title page. Black ribbon marker.

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 Hunting, Shooting, Driving, Racing, Eccentric and Extravagant Exploits. Second edition, reprinted (with considerable additions, including six acquatint plates), from the New Sporting Magazine. "A most valuable and important book for the sporting life of the period, aptly described by Newton as 'a biography of a man that reads like a work of fiction" (Tooley).

Portrayal of the British eccentric and rake John Mytton by Charles James Apperley (Nimrod): "My only fear is, that I may be deficient in strength of pencil to draw the picture to the life, and to represent the anomaly in human nature which the character of the late John Mytton presents; at one time an honor to his nature; at another, a satire on humanity." With eighteen extraordinary aquatints by H. Alken and T. J. Rawlins. Contains eight pages of advertisements of Ackermann publications at rear. Light wear along edges. Some staining to margins at middle of first few pages through preface, not affecting text or images.