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8vo Bound in full red hard-grain Morocco early inscription to front fly leaf dated 1877, Gilt lines on the boards gilt dentells and lines lettering centre tool of a thistle to the spine. Some mild foxing a nice tight copy with a very nice Fore-Edge Painting.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800 - 1859) was a nineteenth-century British poet, historian and Whig politician and one of the two Members of Parliament for Edinburgh. He wrote extensively as an essayist and reviewer, and on British history. The Edinburgh Review, founded in 1802, was one of the most influential British magazines of the 19th century. It ceased publication in 1929.
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Holkham Hall Norfork
Holkham Hall is one of England's finest examples of the Palladian revival style of architecture, and the severity of its design is closer to Palladio's ideals than many of the other numerous Palladian style houses of the period. The Holkham Estate was built up by Sir Edward Coke, the founder of his family's fortune.… Read More

Introduction by Colonel Lewis S. Thompson. The Derrydale Press, New York, 1930. xxv,[1],249pp., plus 64 plates, including 5 colored. Quarto. Original brown publisher's cloth, gilt, t.e.g. Hinges starting, light edge and corner wear, occasional foxing, plates fine. Overall, about very good. First edition, one of 850 copies. A series of instructional essays on hunting different types of game in the United States, illustrated with color plate reproductions of paintings Edmund Burke, A.B. Frost, Lynn Bogue Hunt, and others. "Some of America's most knowledgeable sportsmen were contributing authors to this excellent and timeless work" - Siegel.