Fine Reprint of the Rare, Classic 'sporting Repository" of 1822

The Sporting Repository, containing Horse-racing, Hunting, Coursing, Shooting. Archery, Trotting and Tandem matches, Cocking, Pedestrianism, Pugilism, Anecdotes on sporting subjects, interspersed with Essays, Tales, and a great variety of Miscellaneous Articles

22 plates, by Henry Alken and others. 4to, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd, 1904. One of 500 copies. Bound in full crimson morocco, gilt emblematic tooling on the spine, gilt doublures, t.e.g., by Riviere & Son; spots of foxing on outer edges (not extending onto the page), else fine and attractive.

The Sporting Repository, a London periodical of almost legendary rarity (particularly the final, June, issue) appeared in only six monthly issues, January-June 1822. There were a number of short-lived sporting journals around this time, but this one was notable by the inclusion of 19 colored plates by Alken and J. Barenger. Not all of these are of top quality, and the publishers of this 1904 reprint, while reproducing most with careful fidelity, have replaced six of the weaker ones with nine others of superior quality by Alken, Dighton, and Ben Marshall, for a total of 22. Apart from this, the contents are as in the original, and the resulting volume is not only handsome, but of continuing interest to the sportsman, and to anyone interested in Regency England Schwerdt II, p. 212 .

Item #52992       Price: $500.00