HERBERT, HENRY WILLIAM [FRANK FORESTER] | The Warwick Woodlands, or Things as They Were, Ten Years Ago. By Frank Forester. Philadelphia: G.B. Zieber & Co., 1845

Property from the Sporting and Travel Library of Arnold "Jake" Johnson

HERBERT, HENRY WILLIAM [FRANK FORESTER]

The Warwick Woodlands, or Things as They Were, Ten Years Ago. By Frank Forester. Philadelphia: G.B. Zieber & Co., 1845

12mo (7 x 4 1/4 in.; 178 x 109 mm). Minor foxing. Half dark blue morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands in five compartments, second gilt-lettered, edges speckled red, decorative endpapers; overall rubbed, some chips to morocco.

First edition. "This work, generally acclaimed Herbert's finest sporting novel, first appeared in The American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine, from May to November, 1839" (Van Winkle). A celebrated American sporting novel, originally issued in wrappers, few of which survive.

REFERENCE:

Van Winkle 13–17 

PROVENANCE:

Jeffrey Norton (bookplate to front pastedown)