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The Life of John Mytton, Esq of Halston, Shropshire.
 
Publisher: George Routledge and Sons Ltd, London;
Date of Publication: 1877
Stock Code: 4942
 
No stated publication date [1877]. Revised edition. Octavo. xi, [1],234 pp. 16 colour plates by H Aikin and T J Rawlins as called for, including frontispiece with tissue guard. Book Condition: Good. Publishers’ red cloth with decoration and vignettes in black and gilt to spine and upper board. Spine sunned with minor loss head & tail of spine and wear to corners and top edge. A shaken copy, cracked at inner hinge but holding. Endpapers toned otherwise contents clean and bright; no annotation or inscriptions. Frintis & guard detached but undamaged.
 
Biography of the eccentric country squire, famed for his “hunting, racing, shooting, driving and extravagant exploits” such as riding a bear around the drawing-room, and his tragic demise following an attempt to cure hiccups by setting alight his nightshirt. Scarce.
 
£60.00
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