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WILLIAMSON, Captain Thomas, & Samuel HOWITT (1765?-1822). Oriental Field Sports; being a complete, detailed, and accurate description of the wild sports of the east. London: J. M'Creery for H.R. Young, 1819. 2 volumes, large 4° (324 x 236mm). Additional engraved titles printed in bistre, 40 aquatint plates, hand-coloured over a bistre-printed base, by J. Clark after Williamson & Howitt. (Plates uniformly browned, most with some offsetting of text onto image area.) Contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt, covers with wide borders of fillets and two decorative rolls, surrounding a rectangular gilt block, signed 'Knights Sc.', depicting dead game and hunting implements in the foreground with a stag-hunt in the background, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and fourth, the others with repeat decoration centred around a single large tool depicting a tiger bringing down a stag, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges (extremities rubbed). Provenance : Lt. Col. Henry Madox (inscriptions dated 1825 and armorial bookplate); Sidney, 7th Earl of Bukinghamshire (1860-1930, armorial bookplate). THE SECOND EDITION OF THE REDUCED QUARTO EDITION OF WILLIAMSON AND HOWITT'S FAMOUS WORK. Whilst the plates do not have the impact of the large folio images of the folio editions, the work as a whole is an impressive production and certainly more useable than its monumental predecessor. It is interesting to note that Schwerdt records the same (or similar) decorative stamp signed by Knights on another similar binding (see vol.IV p.12). Schwerdt II,p.299. (2)