Shelfmark
Iaa3.1.07
Title
The sportsman's vocal cabinet. Containing, scarce, curious, and original songs, and ballads, relative to field sports. [edited by Charles Armiger].
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : T. Griffiths, Wellington Street, MDCCCXXXIV. [1834]
Physical description
[2], 426 p, [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Note
T.p. and plates are lithographs.
Note
Charles Armiger's name is given as editor at the end of the foreword, dated "Great Melton, Norfolk, July 19, 1830".
Note
An earlier edition published in 1830.
Note
Includes index of first lines, arranged alphabetically and by sport.
Provenance
Bookplate of Major-General Villiers Hatton CB (1852-1914).
Binding
Contemporary dark blue straight-grain morocco; gold tooled double fillet border with second frame of blind tooled leaf and flower roll; gold tooled geometric roll on board edges and turn-ins; spine gold tooled with hunting motifs; inlaid red morocco for spine labels, gold tooled letters; marbled edges and endpapers; large advertisement label of Thomas Gosden, presumably the bookbinder, with engraving of sporting equipment.
Copy-specific note
Imperfect: wanting the frontispiece.
Subject
Hunting Poetry.
Added entry--name
Armiger, Charles editor.
Added entry--name
Gosden, Thomas, 1780 - 1843 binder.
Added entry--name
Griffiths, T. publisher.
Added entry--name
Hatton, Villiers, 1852 - 1914 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London
Identifier
B28684