Thomas Williamson | Oriental Field Sports, London, 1819, oblong folio, red morocco gilt

Thomas Williamson

Oriental Field Sports: Being a Complete, Detailed, and Accurate Description of the Wild Sports of the East. London: Thomas M'Lean, 1819 [but c.1824 (Whatman watermarks)]

Oblong folio (455 x 585mm.), dedication to George III, list of plates, 40 hand-coloured aquatint plates (including frontispiece) by Edward Orme after S. Howett and T. Williamson, Whatman watermarks dated between 1817 and 1824, contemporary straight-grained red morocco gilt, spine with raised bands in six compartments, spine lettered in gilt, boards decorated in gilt and blind, edges gilt, light brown endpapers, some creasingand light spotting, a few minor tissue repairs at margins, extremities slightly rubbed

"The most beautiful book on Indian sport in existence" (Schwerdt).

LITERATURE:

cf. Abbey, Travel 427 (1807 edition); cf. Schwerdt II, p.298 (1807 & 1808 editions); cf. Tooley (1954) 508 (1807 edition)