Herbert, Henry William, 1807-1858, My shooting box , 1846
- Title(s):
- My shooting box / by Frank Forester (Henry Wm. Herbert, Esq.) ...
- Published/Created:
- Philadelphia : Carey and Hart, 1846.
©1845 - Physical Description:
- viii, [1], 10-179, [1] pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsPS1919.H6 M9 1846Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1210811
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- The four plates, including the added title page, are wood-engraved. Engraved by Butler & Roberts, Henry Walker Herrick, and Gilbert & Gihon; after Henry William Herbert and and Felix Octavius Carr Darley.
"Stereotyped by J.C.D. Christman and Co. T.K. and P.G. Collins, printers."--Title page verso.
Cover imprint varies: "Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 126 Chesnut St. New York: Burgess, Stringer & Co. And for sale by W.H. Graham, New York ... [and 11 other booksellers]."
Bibliography of American Literature notes two states: "1: Folio iii present. P. <180> devoted to advertisements: Philadelphia, May, 1845. Carey & Hart's Cheap Publications ... 2: Folio iii not present. P. <180> blank."
Blanck, J. Bibliography of American literature, 8091
Publisher's advertisements, page [180].
BEIN Za T376 843md: Another copy. [With: [Thompson, William Tappan] 1812-1882. Major Jones's courtship ... 1847]. Probably later state. Front. signed H.W. Herbert, ... no. iii. on prelim. pages. No advertisements on p. [180].
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's original printed wrappers. With [12] additional pages of publisher's advertisements at end not included in pagination. Bookplate in slipcase: William Mitchell Van Winkle. Signed in manuscript on added engraved title: Mount Holly Library Company. - Subject Terms:
- Game and game-birds -- Fiction.Herbert, Henry William, 1807–1858 -- Autograph.Mount Holly Library Company -- Provenance.Shooting -- Fiction.Van Winkle, William Mitchell -- Bookplate.
- Form/Genre:
- Wood engravings -- 1846.
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