Item #37897 Rules and Regulations of Walton and Cotton Club; Instituted 19th March 1817. Revised 8th April 1840. Waltoniana, William Pickering.

One of 33 copies

Rules and Regulations of Walton and Cotton Club; Instituted 19th March 1817. Revised 8th April 1840.

London: Privately Printed by [C. Whittingham, Printer for William Pickering], 1840.

Price: $3,000.00


About the item

First Edition. One of only 33 copies. Frontispiece. Illustrated. Decorative borders printed in red, historiated initial letters. [24] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. One of 33 copies. Contemporary Roxburgh red morocco-backed boards. Owner signature of J.W. Rivington Wilson. Bates bookplate. Some external wear, loose in binding, internally very good. Westwood & Satchell pp.180; Coigney p.402; Keynes 95; Porter 409.

Item #37897

Distinguished copy of a scarce book.
James Wilson Rimington-Wilson (1822-1877) of Broomhead Hall, Yorkshire, was a strong amateur chess player and a noted collector of books on chess and other sports. The library was dispersed in 1928: Jerome Kern owned a manuscript poem on chess by Oliver Goldsmith from the Rimington Wilson library; and a manuscript hand list of his sporting books, 1866, is at the University of Virginia.
The Joseph Bates copy, from his sale lot 231. With his bookplate.