STURGESS, JOHN [ILLUSTRATOR], AND HENRY CHARLES F. SOMERSET, DUKE OF BEAUFORT | Driving ... [Volume 11 of The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes]. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1889

STURGESS, JOHN [ILLUSTRATOR], AND HENRY CHARLES F. SOMERSET, DUKE OF BEAUFORT 

Driving ... [Volume 11 of The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes]. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1889

Large 8vo (9 3/8 x 7 1/8 in.). Numerous illustrations, after G.D. Giles and J. Sturgess, extra-illustrated with 15 original drawings by Sturgess. Contemporary red morocco bound by Rivere & Son, arms of the Dukes of Beaufort on both covers enclosed by a single fillet with stirrups and hunting horns at corners, motif of horse shoes in the outer panel, spine with raised bands in six compartments, second and third gilt-lettered, others with gilt sporting motifs, inner dentelles gilt, blue endpapers, top edges gilt, other uncut. Slipcase.

Number 242 of 250 large paper copies, extra-illustrated with original drawings by Sturgess for illustrations within the book

Dedicated to the Prince of Wales, The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes, was a sporting and publishing project conceived and founded by Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort. The work was issued in three forms: a standard trade edition bound in cloth, a deluxe edition identical to the trade edition but bound in half morocco, and the present large-paper deluxe edition limited to 250 numbered copies.

(See previous lot.)