[WHEELWRIGHT, Horace William.] ‘The OLD BUSHMAN’, and G. BOWERS (illustrator).
Sporting Sketches, home and abroad … with original Illustrations … printed in Colours.
London, Savill, Edwards, & Co. for Frederick Warne & Co., and New York, Scribner, Welford, & Co., [c. 1866].
8vo, pp. xii, 434, with 4 coloured plates (one as frontispiece); subtle repair to gutter of first plate; a good copy in contemporary English half sheep with marbled sides, borders roll-tooled in blind, spine gilt in compartments with gilt black morocco lettering-piece in one, marbled edges and endpapers, sewn on 3 sunken cords; scuffed, staining to spine, upper hinge neatly repaired.
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Sporting Sketches, home and abroad … with original Illustrations … printed in Colours.
First edition of a series of sporting anecdotes, gathered from the author’s experiences in Britain, Scandinavia, and Australia. Gathered mostly from his articles for The Field, the Sporting Sketches were in preparation for the press at the time of the author’s death in November 1865, and appear here posthumously with a short biographical memoir. A naturalist popularly known as the ‘Old Bushman’ who survived for many years as a professional huntsman, Horace William Wheelwright (1815-1865) spent the majority of his life in Sweden and Australia, publishing several insightful and informative works on their natural history and game.
