SCHWERDT, C.F.G.R. | Hunting Hawking Shooting. Illustrated in a Catalogue of Books Manuscripts Prints and Drawings. London: Privately Printed for the Author by Waterlow & Sons Limited, 1928, 1937

Property from the Sporting and Travel Library of Arnold "Jake" Johnson
SCHWERDT, C.F.G.R.
Hunting Hawking Shooting. Illustrated in a Catalogue of Books Manuscripts Prints and Drawings. London: Privately Printed for the Author by Waterlow & Sons Limited, 1928, 1937

4 volumes, 4to (12 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.; 325 x 250 mm). 382 plates, 138 of which colored, decorative head- and tailpieces; one or two stray spots, plates in vol. III a bit puckered. Three-quarter green morocco over green cloth covered boards, bound by Kelly & Sons, spines with raised bands in six compartments, second, third, and fourth gilt-lettered, top edges gilt, decorative endleaves; extremities rubbed, some chips to spines, spines sunned, edges foxed.

First edition, number 59 of 300 copies, signed by the author.

PROVENANCE:
Irving J. Feist (bookplate to front pastedowns)

Condition Report:
Condition as described in catalogue entry.