Sporting Scenes and Sundry Sketches; Being the Miscellaneous Writings of J. Cypress, Jr. Edited By Frank Forester.
New York: Gould, Banks, 1842.
Price: $750.00
About the item
First edition, without Forester's name on the spine. With four plates, three folded laterally, as correct. 2 vols. 8vo. Original brown cloth, spines titled in gilt and stamped in blind, boards stamped in blind. pines a little faded and chipped at head and foot, internally fine. From the library of Jeffrey Norton, with his book label in each volume, and another. BAL 8068; Van Winkle pp. 82-3; Wright I, 1138 (Hawes).
Item #261285
Notes Van Winkle: “This is the first book appearance of the pseudonym 'Frank Forester'. As the Memoir is signed Henry William Herbert, and he speaks of editing his friend's works, the pseudonym was from the beginning an open secret … 'Cypress' was William P. Hawes.”
PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION, SIGNED by the author “William L. Colby from H.W. Herbert” on fly leaf of Vol. 1., with Colby’s ownership signature on flyleaf of vol. II.
Herbert's signature is quite rare.
