first edition 3 vols. 8vo
1845 · London
by Mills, John
London: T.C, Newby, 1845. First edition. 3 vols. 8vo. Full red polished calf, covers with triple gilt fillet borders, spines gilt with foxhunting devices in four panels, gilt leather labels in two. Fine set, with the engraved bookplates of W.H.B. Long and the Duke of Gloucester. First edition. 3 vols. 8vo. Sporting Triple-Decker. "The aim has been simply to depicture ... those invigorating scenes connected with our national sports ... " - Preface
"Like his contemporaries, 'Nimrod' (C.J. Apperley) and 'Yorkshireman' (Surtees), Mills deserves the foremost recognition amongst the ranks of those versatile scribes, pertaining to the order characterised by 'Jorrocks' as 'Gentleman sportsmen,' and with the works of those 'top-sawyers' and first of sporting and sportive penman" (Higginson). Not in Sadleir; Wolff 4804; Higginson, pp. 75-6; Biscotti, Six Centuries of Foxhunting, p. 255 (note) (Inventory #: 227845)
"Like his contemporaries, 'Nimrod' (C.J. Apperley) and 'Yorkshireman' (Surtees), Mills deserves the foremost recognition amongst the ranks of those versatile scribes, pertaining to the order characterised by 'Jorrocks' as 'Gentleman sportsmen,' and with the works of those 'top-sawyers' and first of sporting and sportive penman" (Higginson). Not in Sadleir; Wolff 4804; Higginson, pp. 75-6; Biscotti, Six Centuries of Foxhunting, p. 255 (note) (Inventory #: 227845)
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