Oriental field sports; : being a complete, detailed, and accurate description of the wild sports of the East; and exhibiting, in a novel and interesting manner, the natural history of the elephant, the rhinoceros, the tiger, the leopard, the bear, the deer, the buffalo, the wolf, the wild hog, the jackall, the wild dog, the civet, and other domesticated animals: as likewise the different species of feathered game, fishes, and serpents. The whole interspersed with a variety of original, authentic, and curious anecdotes / taken from the manuscript and designs of Captain Thomas Williamson, … ; the drawings by Samuel Howitt, made uniform in size, and engraved by the first artists. In two volumes. Vol. I[-II].
Thomas Williamson (1758/9 - 1817)
Category
Books
Date
1819
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101259
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v., [2], 40 leaves of plates : ill. (col.) ; 4to. Provenance: Nineteenth-century inscription on title page in both vols.: "Charlotte Howell [?] 1822". Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full reddish-brown straight-grained morocco over boards; gilt and blind fillets and roll-tools to form an elaborate border; spines gilt, with gilt leopard stamp, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Oriental field sports Vol 1[-2].'; gilt inner border; gilt textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Thomas Williamson (1758/9 - 1817), author William Samuel Howitt (1756 – London 1822), original artist