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Lot 207
[ENGLAND-HUNTING] Game record, occasional sketchbook and commonplace book of William Anderson Esq., Dean House, South Shields, Northumberland.
South Shields: 1828-1885. Album in an attractive trade binding of purple embossed calf elaborately blind-tooled from a brass plate die, all edges gilt. 7 3/8 x 4 5/8 inches (18.5 x 12 cm); approximately 100 pp., varicolored paper, including (in part) approximately 12 watercolor or pen-and-ink drawings of comic sporting misadventures; cures for distemper and mange in dogs; a detailed game record for 1828-1885, a remarkably long and uninterrupted period of sport; a list of fox-hunting meets attended 1821-1839; humorous verses; notes on current events etc. 1837-1857; and at the end a list of tenants and rents. Light wear, in all in attractive condition.
Not only is this charming little manuscript of substantial sporting interest, but it encompasses many of the interests and obsessions of a wealthy and enthusiastic nouveau-riche sportsman of the mid-nineteenth century, and is thus a sociological document of some considerable interest.
C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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