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CHARLES JAMES APPERLEY
CHARLES JAMES APPERLEY] The Life of a Sportsman. By Nimrod . London: Rudolph Ackermann 1842. 8vo, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, additional hand-coloured title and 34 plates by and after Henry Alken 10-pages publisher's advertisements at end. (A few light marginal spots.) Original blue cloth, gilt vignette on front cover and spine, gilt edges (corners and head of spine very lightly bumped, front inner hinge cracked), in a folding box. A CLEAN AND FRESH COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the four mounted plates with titles beneath and bound in blue cloth. Schwerdt I, 36-37; Tooley 65. With an autograph letter signed ('C.A.' [sic]) to [Rudolph Ackermann], Shrewsbury 12th May 1836, detailing his willingness to publish a second edition of Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton , but objecting to Alken's 'ludicrous and extraordinary scenes', and proposing a new set of plates: 'I must again beg of you to leave out the view Mytton setting fire to himself for I think it really too bad to hold poor M. up to ridicule ... In my opinion it is quite enough to describe his unnatural activities, but for goodness sake do not hold him up for a maniac ... by representing him in his idiotycy [sic] by pictorial illustration', written on 16 pages, 4to (288 x 187mm) , 4 bifolia, mounted and bound in 20th-century half morocco, gilt spine. With 7 other works by Apperley in 9 volumes (all but one FIRST EDITIONS and all but 2 in original cloth), including Nimrod's Hunting Tours (London, 1835, Schwerdt copy), The Horse and the Hound (London, 1842), 2 copies of The Chace, The Turf, and The Road (London, 1837) and Hunting Reminiscenes (London, 1843). (11)