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    By Nimrod [Charles James Apperley]
    London   George Routledge and Sons
    10" by 6" 234pp
    A fine, early edition of this famous biography of British eccentric and rake, John 'Mad Jack' Mytton.
    By Nimrod [Charles James Apperley]

    1877 The Life of John Mytton

    London   George Routledge and Sons
    10" by 6" 234pp
    A fine, early edition of this famous biography of British eccentric and rake, John 'Mad Jack' Mytton.
    £690.00
    : 1kgs / : 792L8
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    Description

    Colour Plates, Early Edition, Fine Binding, Illustrated

    The fourth edition of this work.

    Illustrated, with a hand-coloured frontispiece and seventeen hand-coloured plates. 

    Collated, complete. 

    To the title page it is noted that this new edition if 'revised and enlarged with a notice of nimrod'. 'Nimrod' is a pseudonym for Charles James Apperley, the Welsh sportsman and sporting writer who wrote many works on the chase. 

    The subject of this biography, John "Mad Jack" Mytton, was an eccentric rake of Regency England. He was known for his flamboyant and eccentric behaviour.

    Condition

    In a full tree calf binding. Externally, very smart. Light rubbing to the front joint and to the extremities of the front board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright. Occasional light spots to pages.

    Near Fine

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