With Extremely Fine Fore-edge Painting  Binding: [Nimrod] -...

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With Extremely Fine Fore-edge Painting 

Binding: [Nimrod] - Songs of the Chase, etc., Containing An Extensive Collection relative to the Sports of the Field:... Hunting, Racing, Angling, Shooting, Coursing, Hawking etc.  Sm. 8vo L. 1811. Second Edn., Engd. frontis & add. engd. title, a.e.g., with an extremely fine original watercolour fore-edge painting of 'three horses & their jockeys nearing the finish line.' In full dark blue mor., blind tooled, and with gilt tooled figures an urns, spine gilt in centre panel with shamrocks etc. B.P. Thos. Gaisford. (1)