Thoughts Upon Hunting: In A Series Of Familiar Letters To A Friend by Peter Beckford
1802. The Fourth Edition. 360 pages. Brown leather with gilt lettering to spine. Rebacked with a more recent spine and new endpapers. Black and white frontispiece and two B&W plates. No half title page present. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some mild water staining to frontispiece. Binding remains firm. The bottom edge of a few pages apparently torn, but possibly just poorly manufactured sheets of paper. New endpapers front and rear. Slight ink spots to title page, frontis. Pages may have been slightly trimmed. Boards have moderate wear with bumped and abraded corners. Spine ends mildly crushed. Gilt lettering remains bright and clear. Board surfaces lightly scratched and rubbed. Faint tape marks to front. Faint liquid spot to rear.