The Badminton Library. Yachting. Two Volume Set. by Sullivan. Sir Edward et al - 1895

Ashford Presss, 1985-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good +/No Jacket-as issued. 2 Volume Hardcover Set, 1985 Ashford Press Facsimile reprint of the original London first edition of 1894. Vol 1 has 479 pages and Vol 2 has 501 pages. Both volumes are Very Good+, no jackets - as issued. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles and accents - corners sharp. No previous owner marks - all pages are bright, clean and crisp. Only flaw is a touch of foxing to the top edge of the textblock (if not for that, this set would present as Like New). Small (7 3/8" x 6" x 2 1/2") but heavy set printed on heavyweight photo-stock paper and richly bound and decorated. Vol 1 has 13 chapters, 17 full page illustrations and 93 additional illustrations. Vol 2 has 13 chapters, 31 full page illustrations and 160 additional illustrations. Really captures the elegance of Yachting in the 19th century. Vol 1 is ISBN-0907069223 and Vol 2 is ISBN-0907069231. LOC SSS-29

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1895. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. 1895 hardback edition which I think is the second printing (Vol. 1 only). 434 pp., illustrated. Good+ condition (spine is rubbed very slightly, internally Very Good). Badminton Library.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894.. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo. 56 plates, including 7 coloured plates of flags, numerous black and white illustrations in the text, owner's ink stamp to the paste downs, both volumes unopened. Original decorative brown cloth, lower covers a little marked with gilt initials to the lower corner, ink stamp repeated to the bottom of the text block, a very good set.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886-1894 . First edition. Leather. Good. 8" by 6". R. T. Pritchett; J. Sturges, J. Charlton . Three works from the Badminton Library with colour plates and illustrations in leather bindings. Three works from The Badminton Library in half crushed morocco bindings. Includes Volumes I and II of 'Yachting' (1894), which is the first edition by Edward Sullivan et al., and 'Hunting' (1886), which is the second edition by The Duke of Beaufort and Mowbray Morris.'Yachting' is illustrated by R. T. Pritchett and from photographs. Volume I has twenty one plates, four of which are in colour. Volume II has fifteen plates, four of which are in colour. 'Hunting' is illustrated by J. Sturgess and J. Charlton. With illustrations throughout the text and a colour frontispiece. Collated, complete.Prior owner's book plate to the first pastedown.  In half calf bindings. Externally, sound. There is some bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. There is some… Read More