(SPORTING) Thornhill Richard Badham The Shooting Directory

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(SPORTING.) Thornhill, Richard Badham. The Shooting Directory. Half-title. 7 aquatint plates (without hand-coloring), including portrait, 2 engraved plates, 1 folding illustration, and 3 folding tables. 4to, contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt, rebacked with joints strengthened, rubbing to spine tips, corners and board edges; intermittent browning. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1804

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first edition, later issue without the hand-coloring and with pp. 215-220 cancelled as usual, due to the fact "that the author had been a little too outspoken over a controversy concerning the Manton Patent Breech, that arose between Mr. Manton and the Duke of Richmond." Abbey Life 394.