COLOR PLATE] NIMROD [APPERLEY, CHARLES JAMES]. Memoirs of the Life of the late John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire... London: Rudolph Ackermann 1837. Second edition, with six additional plates. Contemporary full calf by Riviere & Son, covers with gilt rules at the edges, five raised bands, compartments elaborately tooled in gilt, red title label, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt, original pictorial cloth and spine bound-in at the rear. 9 3/8 inches (24 cm). ix, 1 ff. [list of plates], 206 pp., 8pp. [ads], plus eighteen finely hand-colored plates by Henry Alken and/or T.J. Rawlins (including frontispiece). Hinges split, corners bumped, tiny area of loss to rear board, light foxing, not affecting plates; generally an attractive copy. Abbey Life 385; Schwerdt I, p.38; Tooley 67.
COLOR PLATE] NIMROD [APPERLEY, CHARLES JAMES]. Memoirs of the Life of the late John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire... London: Rudolph Ackermann 1837. Second edition, with six additional plates. Contemporary full calf by Riviere & Son, covers with gilt rules at the edges, five raised bands, compartments elaborately tooled in gilt, red title label, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt, original pictorial cloth and spine bound-in at the rear. 9 3/8 inches (24 cm). ix, 1 ff. [list of plates], 206 pp., 8pp. [ads], plus eighteen finely hand-colored plates by Henry Alken and/or T.J. Rawlins (including frontispiece). Hinges split, corners bumped, tiny area of loss to rear board, light foxing, not affecting plates; generally an attractive copy. Abbey Life 385; Schwerdt I, p.38; Tooley 67.
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