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1885-1912 Fores's Sporting Notes and Sketches
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Description
First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding
Complete in twenty-nine volumes.
The first editions of these works.
Volume I, 1884-1885, illustrated by Finch Mason and R. M. Alexander. Illustrated with thirty-two plates. Collated, complete. Twenty-six pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.
Volume II, 1885-1886, illustrated by Finch Mason, R. M. Alexander, and Cuthbert Bradley. Illustrated with thirty-two plates. Collated, complete. Thirty pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.
Volume III, 1886-1887, illustrated by Finch Mason, R. M. Alexander, and Cuthbert Bradley. Illustrated with thirty-two plates. Collated, complete. Twenty-eight pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.
Volume IV, 1887-1888, illustrated by Finch Mason, R. M. Alexander, and Cuthbert Bradley. Illustrated with thirty-two plates. Collated, complete. Thirty-six pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.
Volume V, 1888-1889, illustrated by Finch Mason, R. M. Alexander, and Cuthbert Bradley. Illustrated with thirty-two plates. Collated, complete. Thirty pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.
Volume VI, 1889-1890, illustrated by Finch Mason, R. M. Alexander, and Cuthbert Bradley. Illustrated with thirty-two plates. Collated, complete. Thirty pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.
Volume VII, 1890-1891, illustrated by Finch Mason, R. M. Alexander, and Cuthbert Bradley. Illustrated with thirty-two plates. Collated, complete. Twenty-six pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.
Volume VIII, 1891-1892. Illustrated with thirty-two plates. Collated, complete. Thirty pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.
Volume IX, 1892. Illustrated with thirty-two plates. Collated, complete. Forty-four pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.
Volume X, 1893. Illustrated with thirty-two plates. Collated, complete. Forty-four pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.
Volume XI, 1894. Illustrated with thirty-two plates. Collated, complete. Forty-four pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.
Volume XII, 1895. Illustrated with thirty-two plates. Collated, complete. Forty-four pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.
Volume XIII, 1896. Illustrated with thirty-two plates. Collated, complete. Forty-four pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.
Volume XIV, 1897. Illustrated with thirty-two plates. Collated, complete.
Volume XV, 1898. Illustrated with thirty-two plates. Collated, complete. Thirty pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.
Volume XVI, 1899. Illustrated with thirty-two plates. Collated, complete. Forty-two pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.
Volume XVII, 1900. Illustrated with thirty-two plates. Collated, complete. Forty-eight pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.
Volume XVIII, 1901. Illustrated with thirty-two plates. Collated, complete. Forty-four pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.
Volume XIX, 1902. Illustrated with thirty-two plates. Collated, complete. Forty-four pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.
Volume XX, 1903. Illustrated with thirty-two plates. Collated, complete. Forty-four pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.
Volume XXI, 1904. Illustrated with thirty-two plates. Collated, complete.
Volume XXII, 1905. Illustrated with thirty-two plates. Collated, complete. Twenty-six pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.
Volume XXIII, 1906. Illustrated with thirty-two plates. Collated, complete. Eighteen pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.
Volume XXIV, 1907. Illustrated with thirty-two plates. Collated, complete. Forty pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.
Volume XXV, 1908. Illustrated with thirty-two plates. Collated, complete. Forty-four pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.
Volume XXVI, 1909. Illustrated with thirty-two plates. Collated, complete. Forty-two pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.
Volume XXVII, 1910. Illustrated with thirty-two plates. Collated, complete. Fifty pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.
Volume XXVIII, 1911. Illustrated with thirty-one plates. Collated, bound without one plate, plate facing page 162. Fifty-six pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.
Volume XXIX, 1912. Illustrated with thirty-two plates. Collated, complete. Fifty-six pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.
'Fores's Sporting Notes and Sketches' was a quarterly magazine on sports in Britain and across the world, published routinely from 1884 to 1912. Given the era the magazine was published in, there is a particular focus of colonial sports.
The magazine primarily focuses on riding, racing, and shooting.
Condition
In a half morocco binding with cloth to the boards. Externally, smart, with light rubbing to the spines and joints. Minor marking to the boards. A little bumping to the head and tail of the spines and to the extremities. Light fading to the spine of Volume VII. A little heavier rubbing to the tail of the spine of Volume XI. A small amount of loss to the head of the spine of Volume XIX. White mark to the tail of the rear board of Volume XX. Fading and rubbing to the spine of Volume XXI. Light spots to the fore edges. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. The occasional page is uncut to the fore edge.
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