APPERLEY, James Charles.
Nimrod's Hunting Tours, Interspersed with Characteristic Anecdotes, Sayings, and Doings of Sporting Men, Including Notices of the Principal Crack Riders of England, to Which are Added Nimrod's Letters on Riding to Hounds, with Analytical Contents and General Index of Names.
New York: D. Appleton & Company , 1903.
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“PATIENCE IS THE BEST PERFORMER IN THE CHASE”: Finely Bound Example of Nimrod's Hunting Tours
Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Illustrated with 18 hand colored plates after Ben. Marshall, Jas. Berenger, R.B. Davis, Wm. Barraud, Wm. Webb, H.B. Chalon, James Ward, etc.
Apperley 'earned the respect of sportsmen everywhere' and 'held a unique position in his day and left an imperishable memory in sporting history' (ODNB). Schwerdt I, p.39.
Nimrod's Hunting Tours, Interspersed with Characteristic Anecdotes, Sayings, and Doings of Sporting Men, Including Notices of the Principal Crack Riders of England, to Which are Added Nimrod's Letters on Riding to Hounds, with Analytical Contents and General Index of Names.
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