[EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED] COOPER, J. W. Game Fowls, Their Origin and History... West Chester, PA: by the author, [1869]. Standard edition, extra-illustrated. Later half gilt-ruled morocco, top edge gilt, with original pictorial cloth front cover and spine bound in by Stikeman. 8 5/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 304 pp.; 2 color plates and extraillustrated with an earlier series of 6 hand-colored engravings depicting cockfights. Pale scattered foxing, else a very nice copy. An early work on cockfighting in America, this copy with a fine series of captioned engravings, hand colored and heightened with gum arabic, including: "A Challenge"; "A Set Too"; "A Rally"; "A Knock Down Blow"; "Heeling"; and "The Death." Phillips, p. 86. C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
[EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED] COOPER, J. W. Game Fowls, Their Origin and History... West Chester, PA: by the author, [1869]. Standard edition, extra-illustrated. Later half gilt-ruled morocco, top edge gilt, with original pictorial cloth front cover and spine bound in by Stikeman. 8 5/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 304 pp.; 2 color plates and extraillustrated with an earlier series of 6 hand-colored engravings depicting cockfights. Pale scattered foxing, else a very nice copy. An early work on cockfighting in America, this copy with a fine series of captioned engravings, hand colored and heightened with gum arabic, including: "A Challenge"; "A Set Too"; "A Rally"; "A Knock Down Blow"; "Heeling"; and "The Death." Phillips, p. 86. C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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