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Hunting Wicksted, Charles The Cheshire Hunt; A Song. Chester: Printed for the Publisher, by T....
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Wicksted, Charles The Cheshire Hunt; A Song. Chester: Printed for the Publisher, by T. Griffith, 1837. 8vo, org. pink moire cloth (upper joint starting, board loose but attached); 2 plates; provenance: Douglas Peter Crossman (armorial bookplate to upper pastedown).
A rare item, the Schwerdt copy sold in 2006 in the Duke of Gloucester sale at Christie's.
Schwerdt II p. 294 "Very rare. We have never heard of another copy."
[Hawke, Martin] Howell Wood; or, the Raby Hunt, in Yorkshire. A new hunting song, to the tune of Ballynamonaora. Pontefract: Printed and Published by John Fox, 1806. 8vo, unbound pamphlet; decorative woodcut headpiece. Third ed., "with very considerable additions".
The first edition of this work was published in 1804. The author was first identified in the 1840 edition by the Middle Hill Press. [2]
Wicksted, Charles The Cheshire Hunt; A Song. Chester: Printed for the Publisher, by T. Griffith, 1837. 8vo, org. pink moire cloth (upper joint starting, board loose but attached); 2 plates; provenance: Douglas Peter Crossman (armorial bookplate to upper pastedown).
A rare item, the Schwerdt copy sold in 2006 in the Duke of Gloucester sale at Christie's.
Schwerdt II p. 294 "Very rare. We have never heard of another copy."
[Hawke, Martin] Howell Wood; or, the Raby Hunt, in Yorkshire. A new hunting song, to the tune of Ballynamonaora. Pontefract: Printed and Published by John Fox, 1806. 8vo, unbound pamphlet; decorative woodcut headpiece. Third ed., "with very considerable additions".
The first edition of this work was published in 1804. The author was first identified in the 1840 edition by the Middle Hill Press. [2]
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